gab

  • 51gab line — gab line, U.S. a telephone service that provides a person with another party or parties to have a conversation for a fixed charge per minute; talk line: »He might have…the opportunity to listen in on 976 MEET,…or almost any of the other so called …

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  • 52gab|bart — «GAB uhrt», noun. Dialect. a barge; lighter. ╂[< French gabare < Portuguese gabarra] …

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  • 53gab|broid — «GAB royd», adjective. resembling gabbro …

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  • 54gab|bro — «GAB roh», noun, plural bros. any one of a group of granular igneous rocks, greenish gray to black, containing pyroxene and triclinic feldspar. ╂[< Italian gabbro, perhaps dialectal alteration of Latin glaber, brī smooth] …

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  • 55gab|er|lun|zie — «GAB uhr LUHN zee, LOON yee», noun. Scottish. 1. a wallet or pouch carried by beggars for receiving contributions. 2. a strolling beggar; mendicant: »barking at a gaberlunzie (Scott). ╂[origin uncertain] …

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  • 56gab|fest — «GAB FEHST», noun. Especially U.S. Informal. an informal talk; a chat …

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  • 57Gab|o|nese — «GAB uh NEEZ, NEES», adjective, noun, plural nese. –adj. of Gabon, its people, or their languages. –n. a native of Gabon, a country in Central Africa …

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  • 58gab|bai — «gah BY», noun. 1. an official in a synagogue. 2. the treasurer of a synagogue. ╂[< Hebrew gabbai] …

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  • 59gab|bro|ic — «guh BRO ihk», adjective. of the nature of gabbro: »gabbroic rocks …

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  • 60gab´ber — gab1 «gab», verb, gabbed, gab|bing, noun. Informal. –v.i. to talk too much; chatter; gabble. SYNONYM(S): prattle. –n. idle talk; …

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