confab

[ noun kon-fab; verb kuhn-fab, kon-fab ]

noun

1. a confabulation; a conversation.

verb (used without object)

, con·fabbed, con·fab·bing.

1. to confabulate:

   They spent the morning confabbing over coffee in my office.

confab

/ ˈkɒnfæb /

noun

1. a conversation or chat

verb

1. intr to converse

Word History and Origins

Origin of confab¹

First recorded in 1695–1705; by shortening

Example Sentences

And he's appeared at some right-wing media confabs and made a foray to a plant in Pennsylvania last week.

From Salon

Republicans have seemed buoyant and gleeful at their Wisconsin confab this week, cheering wildly each time Trump appeared, his ear still bandaged.

From Los Angeles Times

This week he was expected to attend the annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, a glittering confab in the south of France where advertisers and media grandees mingle over glasses of rosé.

From New York Times

I'm not talking specifically about ideology here, although there was plenty of odious far-right philosophy at this confab going all the way back to its first meeting in 1974.

From Salon

Recently on a brisk afternoon, she arrived at a loft in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, for a confab with four other veterans of the cabaret scene.

From New York Times