1
as in to chat
to engage in casual or rambling conversation
the two friends can blab for hours on the phone
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2
as in to gossip
to relate sometimes questionable or secret information of a personal nature
he blabs a lot, so never share a secret with him
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Recent Examples of blab
Nick Caruso, TVLine, 2 Oct. 2024
In response, Smith alleged that her ex was actually the one who blabbed the news to his family, according to new court documents obtained by the Press Herald.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 15 May 2024
Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2022
On cue, the CDC's latest update is being met with the usual tomato-throwing response from the anti-vaccine, anti-mask, anti-science, anti-logic members of the blab-o-sphere who have declared the CDC hopelessly lost, unscientific and waffling.
—Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 2 Aug. 2021
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Verb
Rome’s nonstop blabbing about the dos and don’ts of fishing have gotten most of the tribe wound up, though ignoring him and talking smack behind his back seem to be a salve.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 2 Oct. 2024
In response, Smith alleged that her ex was actually the one who blabbed the news to his family, according to new court documents obtained by the Press Herald.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 15 May 2024
Noun
Lots of people just blab on about personal things to me, but this is a medical office.
—Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2022
On cue, the CDC's latest update is being met with the usual tomato-throwing response from the anti-vaccine, anti-mask, anti-science, anti-logic members of the blab-o-sphere who have declared the CDC hopelessly lost, unscientific and waffling.
—Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 2 Aug. 2021
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Verb
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Or if, in the case of Bumble’s Concierge service, two bots are chatting with each other while each person goes about their day, how will daters know if there is actually a connection based on who each of them really is?—
Myisha Battle,
Time,
28 Mar. 2025
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Fest latest: Glasgow Film Festival industry boss Samantha Andie Bennett chatted with Diana about a busy year.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
28 Mar. 2025
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Olympia and Matty try to get their mind off their troubles by day drinking and gossiping about Julian and Shae.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2025
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Toward the end of the movie, the nieces are back in the larder, gossiping among the cabbage and kitchenware.—
Namwali Serpell,
The New Yorker,
25 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Worse yet, has Lutnick ever talked with a friend or relative in his or her 70s or 80s who depends on Social Security to cover basic bills?—
Susan Tompor,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2025
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Prior to the premiere, O’Brien talked to Variety about the challenge of playing dual parts.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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She was getting winded on our walk, and her prattle was broken up by heavy breaths.—
Joshua Cohen,
The New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2024
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The larcenous prattle is, in this sense, a typically Wiig-ian set piece: sunny, strained and flailing for dignity.—
Lili Loofbourow,
Washington Post,
20 Mar. 2024
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The fitness industry still needs to get people comfortable conversing with AI, but Shams said by educating consumers about the value of using these technologies, the industry could find a healthy balance between human and AI.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 2025
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Nvidia offers products that allow businesses to build or speed up the development of AI systems that can converse with people and perform tasks.—
Los Angeles Times,
Boston Herald,
22 Mar. 2025
Noun
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It’s been almost a quarter-century since Renée Zellweger first stepped into the shoes of the wine-guzzling, smoking, babbling, pratfall-prone and terminally awkward title character in Bridget Jones’s Diary.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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Today, her daughter, Dana, is growing up like any other Swiss suburban child, in Basel now, splashing around in toddler swim classes and speaking to her mother in a babbling mix of English and Ukrainian.—
Ann Scott Tyson,
The Christian Science Monitor,
8 Nov. 2024
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Worse, such jabber crowds out essential coverage of genuine threats to democracy and the visions of the two parties.—
Jennifer Rubin,
Washington Post,
16 July 2024
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Jacobs-Jenkins renders him as a wry, friendly figure who occasionally takes over the bodies of the other characters to explain what is happening beneath their jabber.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
5 June 2023
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In the case of viral chatter, the message would be a human pandemic.—
Ron Barrett,
The Conversation,
31 Mar. 2025
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Instead of dialogue, the SEAL team communicates through chatter.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Blab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blab. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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