Gab

Definitions

1. A diminutive of the male given name Gabriel.
2. Initialism of gender-atypical behavior.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
3. Idle chatter.
   countable, uncountable
4. The mouth or gob.
   countable, uncountable
5. One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Ah, find⟳ some chirk in ye, lad. Now is the time for gab and chatter. Y’best be enjoying it. Come⟳ a fortnight and the brace of us’ll be wantin’ to be ever silent as the tomb. Even to clap eyes on each other... It’ll make⟳ y’hotter than hell!”

“Loose eccentric reversing gear gave way about 1836 to the early forms of gab motion. [...] In 1840 Stephenson evolved a motion in which the gabs were connected directly to the valve spindle.”

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