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1. An informal conversation
   - chat, confabulation, schmooze, schmoose

1. Talk socially without exchanging too much information
   - chew the fat, shoot the breeze [N. Amer], chat, confabulate, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver [UK, dialect], visit, gas, gab
    
2. Have a conference in order to talk something over
   - confer, confabulate, consult

Derived forms: confabbing, confabbed, confabs

Type of: conversation, converse, discourse, discuss, hash out, talk over

Encyclopedia: Confab