[
UK
/kənfˈæb/
]
NOUN
- an informal conversation
VERB
-
talk socially without exchanging too much information
the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze -
have a conference in order to talk something over
We conferred about a plan of action
How To Use confab In A Sentence
- Neuropsychological evidence points towards our tendency to confabulate stories that we believe to be true in order to fit together disparate pieces of information.
- What there is, is a difficult political issue now that we have discovered the VPOTUS and his associates broke this law—not for a kidnapped child, but to justify the imminent invasion of Iraq with confabulated links between Saddam and 9/11. The Volokh Conspiracy » Radio Host Waterboarded, Says It’s Torture:
- But we confabbed the night before, and agreed it would probably be best if we headed out on our tour for the bighorn sheep experts early in the day, while it was cool. Grouse Diary Entry
- To Helen and back: At the star-studded The Night Before bash Saturday, Daniels confabbed with acting legend Helen Mirren, who starred in his 2005 drama Shadowboxer, which he directed. That's a wrap for Lee Daniels as countdown to Oscars ends
- People who confabulate experience their false memories as true.
- This was confabulated into Christian mythology, the converted Norse intertwining the character with one of the first saints of the region, Saint Nicholas.
- After long confabulations, the tribal elders told him that only the old people would act in his movie.
- She convinced Continental's senior executives to take ownership of important agencies and corporations in assigned territories, and to join marketing staffers on sales calls and at the twice-yearly customer confabs.
- Believing one of every 10 happy-talk words that the leaders utter about their confabs would seem to be the appropriate discount rate.
- When their feeling for the river's lore drew them, by a spiritual gravitation, to a common centre -- to learn, for instance, that Council Bend and Council Island were named for one of those historic "confabs" between the white man and the red which shouldered the red brother once and forever away from the sunrise and across the great river -- that centre of gravity was the captain's chair, their tutor the first mate. Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi