Green’s Dictionary of Slang

conflab n.

[var. on confab 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.
[US]J.H. Green Exposure of [...] Gambling 263: Oh, I say, old fellow, this conflab of mine was a mere romance; no such thing ever happened me.
[UK]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.
[UK]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].
[US]Arizona Champion (Peach Springs, AZ) 9 Feb. 3/1: Sam King, Conductor rainey and Dan Murphy spent two or three hours in sociable conflab.
[US]Western Kansas World 22 Dec. 4/3: In mixing himself up in our political conflab he let the enemy flank down.
[UK]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.
[US]Dalles Wkly Chron. (OR) 3 Aug. 1/4: The General has had an extended conflab with Admiral Dewey.
[NZ]N.Z. Truth 29 Sept. 3/5: Jim the Milker Has Some Conflab with the Prophet Jeremiah.
[US]Day Book (Chicago) 1 Apr. 32/1: We weren’t a sayin’ much whil the conflab was goin’ on.
[US]J.C. Ruppenthal ‘A Word-List From Kansas’ in DN IV:ii 104: conflab, n. = Confab, conversation.
Harrisburgh Teleg. (PA) 26 Sept. 13/4: [headline] Lewis Refuses to Join ‘Round Table’ Conflab.
[US]Lubbock Avalanche (TX) 20 June 5/6: [headline] State Bankers at Waco For a General Conflab.
[Aus]Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld) 1 Mar. 10/4: They has a bit of a conflab.
[UK]Western Times 29 Oct. 2/6: Ned went straight back ’ome and had a conflab with his missis about it.
[UK]B. Robinson Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman 206: There was a hell of a conflab on the landing.