gab

1. 1.

   talk profusely

   “she was yakking away about her grandchildren”

   Synonymsyak

   Broadercommunicate

Other forms of gab

plural

gabs·

past tense

gabbed·

present participle

gabbing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gab

What does gab mean?

gab means "light informal conversation for social occasions". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gab?

gab has 1 syllable: gab. In IPA it is /ˈɡæb/.

What is another word for gab?

Close synonyms include chitchat, chit-chat, chit chat, small talk, gabfest. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gab a common word?

gab is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.