confab

confab
n. /kon"fab/; v. /keuhn fab", kon"fab/, n., v., confabbed, confabbing. Informal.
n.
1. a confabulation.
v.i.
2. to confabulate: They spent the morning confabbing over coffee in my office.
[1695-1705; by shortening]

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