CONFAB meaning: Conversation, often informal and imaginative

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Definitions from Wiktionary (confab)

▸ noun: (informal) Clipping of confabulation (“a casual chat or talk”). [A casual conversation; a chat.]
▸ verb: (intransitive, informal) Clipping of confabulate (“to speak casually with somebody; to chat”). [(intransitive) To speak casually with; to chat.]

Similar:

consult, Confer, visit, chat, gossip, chitchat, chaffer, confabulate, natter, chatter, more...

Opposite:

solitude, silence, isolation, loneliness

Types:

chat, tete-a-tete, colloquy, palaver, schmooze, gabfest, more...

Adjectives:

long, little, private, close, short, everlasting, brief, regular, secret, big, quiet

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