WordWeb Online

1. Light informal conversation for social occasions
   - chitchat, chit-chat, chit chat, small talk, gabfest [N. Amer], gossip, tittle-tattle, chin wag, chin-wag [Brit], chin wagging, chin-wagging, causerie

1. Talk profusely
   - yak
    
2. Talk socially without exchanging too much information
   "the men were sitting in the cafe and gabbing"
   - chew the fat, shoot the breeze [N. Amer], chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver [UK, dialect], visit, gas

Derived forms: gabbed, gabs, gabbing

See also: gabby

Type of: chat, communicate, confab, confabulation, converse, discourse, intercommunicate, schmoose, schmooze

Encyclopedia: Gab