jabber
IPA: dʒˈæbɝ
noun
- Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish.
- One who or that which jabs.
- (informal) One who administers a hypodermic injection, especially of a COVID-19 vaccine.
- A kind of hand-operated corn planter.
verb
- (intransitive) To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
- (transitive) To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble.
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Examples of "jabber" in Sentences
- * Not known as a jabber Valero nevertheless out-jabbed a converted right-hander known for his solid stick 87-47.
- But there's a lot of conversation, there's a lot of talk, there's a lot of jabber, which is very similar, they say, to what happened right before September 11.
- If you have a friend who has even once referred to a foreign language as "jabber," travel far away from that friend, whose whole neighborhood is likely to be poisonous.
- The cashier was going on about how the freemasons are running the country because Bush was part of Skull and Bones at Yale, and how it really doesn't matter who you vote for because so was Kerry you just don't get this kind of jabber at the Safeway, do you?
- And if he was busy above stairs with the governor, there was another busy below with us poor English servants, a kind of subordinate priest, a low Italian; as he could speak no language but his own, he was continually jabbering to us in that, and by hearing him the maids and myself contrived to pick up a good deal of the language, so that we understood most that was said, and could speak it very fairly; and the themes of his jabber were the beauty and virtues of one whom he called
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