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Confab

verb

Talk socially without exchanging too much information. Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit.

Have a conference in order to talk something over. Synonyms: confabulate, confer, consult.

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"Confab" Quotes from Famous Books

... it, then. Wait here till I send the other fellers around. Then we'll just have a little confab, and see what we can fix up. I'll sound Sid while we're coming along; though if you're in, he's sure to say yes, because he always sticks by ...

— Fred Fenton on the Crew - or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School • Allen Chapman

... a round dozen of the past two days' casualties begging that same thing—not to be sent away till we come out of the trenches. And to beat all, McRory, when he was told he was going just the minute the ambulance came, had a confab with the stretcher bearers, and I heard him arguing with them about 'his share,' and 'when they got the Gineral,' and 'my bit o' the fifty thousand francs.' ...

— Action Front • Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart)

Words linked to "Confab" : gabfest, tittle-tattle, chin-wagging, conversation, gab, hash out, chin-wag, causerie, small talk, talk over, chit chat, converse, discourse, jawbone, chin wagging, shmoose, shmooze, discuss, collogue, chin wag