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gabfest

(ˈgæbfɛst)

n. an event where much chattering or gossip takes place. There’s a gabfest going on in Clare’s room.

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Their overuse has encouraged people to engage in serious gabfests.

Clare McKeon's column: GOODBYE!; We should follow Big Apple ban on mobiles

In 1996, while many of their college classmates were tailgating and pulling all-night gabfests, longtime pals Ryan Duques and James Warner were busy publishing their first newspaper.

Publishing: It's a Shore thing

Rather, it makes baseball more accessible to gabfests among followers.

Baseball's "100 Greatest Players"--Sez Who?

Lewis, you see, was an African-American artist, the only one included in those theoretical gabfests at Studio 35 called the Artists' Sessions.

Norman Lewis

Often absent from these gabfests are Andre Braugher as Frank Pembleton, a stern, abrasive and ruthlessly efficient black veteran detective, and Kyle Secor, as Bayliss, his white rookie partner.

Homicide: Life on the Street

Since its founding in 1996, Slate Magazine has been committed to smart, counterintuitive analysis of politics and culture, and Slate's Political and Culture Gabfests have brought these values to millions of podcast listeners over the past seven years.

WNYC and Slate Team Up to Launch Gabfest Radio, An Hour-Long Radio Show Based on Two of Slate's Most Popular Podcasts

OK, you two are a bit disruptive with your gabfests.

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Phillips is delightfully grumpy as Maurice's increasingly complaining cohort, and Richard Griffiths provides nice contrast as the duo's occasional third wheel for gabfests.

Venus

Copulation and nudity commonly punctuate the half-hour comic gabfests, although Parker's character, Carrie - a sex columnist like Bushnell - has managed to remain covered-up and kept her lovemaking techniques to viewer's imaginations through the first two seasons.

SHE CAN'T DO-WRONG; SARAH JESSICA PARKER HITS HIGH NOTES IN HER PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LIVES

Appearing on variety shows, late night gabfests and situation comedies, a lot of comedians have had their moment in the spotlight, but only a select few have changed the face of TV comedy.

A&E Network Kicks Off the 15th Anniversary of BIOGRAPHY with LAUGH OUT LOUD: TV'S 15 GREATEST COMEDIANS Hosted and Narrated By Everybody Loves Raymond's Brad Garrett

Amazingly free of the bitterness that often informs such claustrophobic gabfests, pic finally and decisively espouses intimacy over confrontation, any excess touchy-feely sentimentality channeled into unexpected sexual pairings.

The Reception

It has not hurt their cause that sponsorship - and viewership - of the gabfests began to wane just before they took aim at these programs as catalysts for societal decline.

RIGHT WHINE CAN'T STOP CHEESY TV

If you minded all those compendiums of gabfests between the government and the business sector during the time of our leader BS, they could swamp you with loud arguments about how agriculture could be the answer.

Crime does not prey

Outside the confines of cable outlets and latenight gabfests, topical humor isn't exactly whizzing off the shelves of primetime television in America.

Brits dive into snark-infested waters

HD and DVD will take center stage at the 19th annual Mipcom, with special screenings, gabfests and a publication dedicated to the technologies.