Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Idle talk; prating; lying; deceit.
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- verb Present participle of
gab .
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Examples
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Because most of the increased gabbing is for usage that is free under the typical plan: nights, weekends and calls to other users of your cellphone company.)
Snip! Nearly One-Fifth of Homes Have No Landline - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Because most of the increased gabbing is for usage that is free under the typical plan: nights, weekends and calls to other users of your cellphone company.)
Snip! Nearly One-Fifth of Homes Have No Landline - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Tetreault fondly recalls gabbing with manager Terry Francona last spring about the manager's back surgery - certainly a story he's trotted out at dinner once or twice.
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When they weren't gabbing, that is, which they mainly liked to do.
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I have a theory that more men are lost to themselves and the age by a love of "gabbing" than by drinking.
Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War George Alfred Townsend 1877
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In a hand written margin note from a memo dated January 23, 1947, Hoover writes, "in view of all the 'gabbing' done by the Dept to the Press there is little which can be expected from
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Elaine pushed her way through crowds of middle-aged women, gabbing to each other in Spanish and pulling small, wire carts stocked with groceries behind them.
Klondike Kelli Trapnell 2011
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No, because it's distracting no matter how you're gabbing away.
Long-Term Talking Can Cause “Mobile Phone Elbow” | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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History geek that I am, one afternoon I was gabbing with her about all sorts of 19th-century arcana when she mentioned the 19th Wife.
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It's less about gabbing and complaining at any given moment; it's more about holding high standards for ourselves and demanding that our expert voices are heard in surround sound.
Jose Vilson: On the State of Teacher Voice 2011 Jose Vilson 2011
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