Usually means: Lengthy, unnecessary discussion or fuss.
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  1. palaver: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. palaver: Merriam-Webster
  3. palaver: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. palaver: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. palaver: Collins English Dictionary
  6. palaver: Vocabulary.com
  7. Palaver, palaver: Wordnik
  8. palaver: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. palaver: Wiktionary
  10. palaver: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. palaver: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. palaver: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Palaver, palaver: Dictionary.com
  14. palaver: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Palaver: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Palaver: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. palaver: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. palaver: Rhymezone
  19. Palaver: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. palaver: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. palaver: FreeDictionary.org
  22. palaver: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. palaver: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. palaver: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. palaver: Legal dictionary

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  1. palaver: Encyclopedia

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  1. palaver: A Word A Day

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. palaver, palaver: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. palaver: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. palaver: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See palavered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (Africa) A village council meeting.
noun:  (Canada, US, archaic in Britain) Talk, especially unnecessary talk; chatter. [from 18th c.]
noun:  (British) Mentally draining activity, either physical or fuss.
noun:  A meeting at which there is much talk; a debate; a moot.
noun:  (informal) Disagreement.
noun:  Talk intended to deceive. [from 19th c.]
verb:  (intransitive) To discuss with much talk.
verb:  (transitive) To flatter.

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