gab
IPA: gˈæb
noun
- Idle chatter.
- The mouth or gob.
- One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines.
- A diminutive of the male given name Gabriel.
- (psychology) Initialism of gender-atypical behavior.
verb
- (intransitive, obsolete) To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie.
- (intransitive) To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects.
- (transitive, obsolete) To speak or tell falsely.
Advertisement
Examples of "gab" in Sentences
- Please do so without all the gab.
- Thatcher definitely had the gift of gab.
- Do not add in Batista's opponent at the GAB.
- They obviously inherited the Gift of the Gab.
- GAB will probably do the same as well as Lockdown.
- The author has the Hibernian gift and curse of gab.
- For your gift of the gab is a caution -- are splendid;
- "Shut up that kind of gab," demanded Jorth, stridently.
- I was the oldest and seemed to have the gift of the gab.
- It was just announced that Umaga will defend the title at the GAB.
- "Aw, shut up that kind of gab, will y'u?" broke in Colter, harshly.
- Berserk, nor "gab" like the Paladins of Charlemagne, he is ready on provocation to boast of what he has done.
- Sometimes our phone conversations go on forever, and we just kind of gab about our lives, and what is holding us back.
- The notion that our leaders might have the brains and skill to maturely resolve conflicts with the gift of gab is astounding and long overdue.
- The natives in the vicinity of Perth generally use the word gab-by, or kuyp-e, for water, but those inhabiting a district only twelve or fourteen miles distant from Perth adopt the word kow-win; the word used by the natives in the vicinity of Adelaide in South Australia for water is kauw-ee.