conflab n.
(US) a conversation, an argument.
Dly Nat. Jrnl 4 Nov. 2/5: ‘I’ll never eat if I know when to stop when I get into a conflab ’bout politics’. | ||
Frederick Town Herald (MD) 13 Nov. 4/2: Let’s have a little conflab about [Andrew] Jackson. | ||
Exposure of [...] Gambling 263: Oh, I say, old fellow, this conflab of mine was a mere romance; no such thing ever happened me. | ||
Northampton Mercury 16 Feb. 3/3: Mr Padmore [...] described the dioscussion as ‘a conflab,’ a sort of half joking, half angry sort of chaffing, a mixed medley affair. | ||
Swindon Advertiser 22 Jan. 3/2: [...] to have a glass and a pipe and to hold a conflab as to the propriety and righteousness of docking their men a shilling a week. | ||
Winfield Courier 7 Aug. 3/1: ‘Conflabs’ lively among the lawyers [DA]. | ||
Arizona Champion (Peach Springs, AZ) 9 Feb. 3/1: Sam King, Conductor rainey and Dan Murphy spent two or three hours in sociable conflab. | ||
Western Kansas World 22 Dec. 4/3: In mixing himself up in our political conflab he let the enemy flank down. | ||
Luton Times 1 Nov. 5/4: He appealled to the Town Council [...] to remember those trusty allies [...] with whom they had so profictably sat in conflab. | ||
Dalles Wkly Chron. (OR) 3 Aug. 1/4: The General has had an extended conflab with Admiral Dewey. | ||
N.Z. Truth 29 Sept. 3/5: Jim the Milker Has Some Conflab with the Prophet Jeremiah. | ||
Day Book (Chicago) 1 Apr. 32/1: We weren’t a sayin’ much whil the conflab was goin’ on. | ||
DN IV:ii 104: conflab, n. = Confab, conversation. | ‘A Word-List From Kansas’ in||
Harrisburgh Teleg. (PA) 26 Sept. 13/4: [headline] Lewis Refuses to Join ‘Round Table’ Conflab. | ||
Lubbock Avalanche (TX) 20 June 5/6: [headline] State Bankers at Waco For a General Conflab. | ||
Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld) 1 Mar. 10/4: They has a bit of a conflab. | ||
Western Times 29 Oct. 2/6: Ned went straight back ’ome and had a conflab with his missis about it. | ||
Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman 206: There was a hell of a conflab on the landing. |