Usually means: Conversation, often informal and imaginative.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. confab: Merriam-Webster
  2. confab: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. confab: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. confab: Collins English Dictionary
  5. confab: Vocabulary.com
  6. confab: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. confab: Wiktionary
  8. confab: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. confab: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. confab: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. confab: Dictionary.com
  12. confab: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Confab: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. confab: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. confab: Rhymezone
  16. Confab: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. confab: FreeDictionary.org
  18. confab: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. confab: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Confab, confab: Wordnik

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confab: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confab: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confab: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. confab, confab: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. confab: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See confabbed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.]

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