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verb

Definition of blabnext
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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blab

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noun

as in babble

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Recent Examples of blab
Verb
As with other gray-empowerment films like Thelma, there’s a touch of corniness in María Ángeles’ determination and resilience, which extends to a hint of blackmail to stop the real estate agent from blabbing to Clara. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025 Don’t say that your generic generative AI instantiates professional quality therapy, such as brazenly blabbing so in your marketing materials. — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
The unknowing apprentice blabs about red hair and more to Cressida, who then takes the information to blackmail Penelope into paying her a huge sum. — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 13 June 2024 But things turn sour when Eloise blabs about Colin helping Pen to Cressida and another one of the ladies nearby hears it … and well, gossip is meant to be spread right? — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 16 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for blab
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blab
  1. chat
  2. gossip
  3. babble
  4. talk
  5. prattle
  6. converse
  7. babbling
  8. jabber
Verb
  • Service is incredibly attentive and personable; everyone will want to stop and chat throughout the day.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • And in 2023, Tierra Whack and Lil Yachty chatted about hip-hop in Brooklyn, before Jon Batiste and Gucci Mane kept the conversation going.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of chat
Verb
  • The two women start to hang out again like college pals, gossiping and hip-hip dancing and — always – splitting a bottle of white wine.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
  • The two friends also gossiped about the buzz surrounding their friendship, Shawkat previously told The New Yorker.
    — Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of gossip
Noun
  • And three, sometimes four, of those many waking hours are spent in the car — bouncing from home to school to her second or third job and home again — with music at full blast to drown out the babble of anxiety, most of it financial.
    — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Companies modelled after Mary Kay that have reprised empowerment babble for their founders’ gain are mentioned but receive scarce judgment.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 15 July 2026
Definition of babble
Verb
  • Sitting in one of the ship’s myriad bars and talking to strangers is one of the most interesting, and often lovely, things a person can do on board.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Wells' friends said Wells did not return to the mainland with them, choosing instead to stay behind to talk with a girl, a claim his family has disputed.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of talk
Noun
  • The Korean Football Association was furious, responding to this juvenile, but ultimately harmless, prattle by boycotting the Korean press.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 24 June 2026
  • Some of the prattle can feel like treading water, a delaying tactic until the inevitable confrontation scene.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
Definition of prattle
Verb
  • This was already noticed long before the emergence of AI chatbots with the power to converse.
    — Pascal Vrticka, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Users can access dots through OpenAI's ChatGPT platform, Altman said, adding that in the future, people will be able to converse with the agents by phone and text.
    — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of converse
Noun
  • The line could be dismissed as the babbling of a crazy old crone.
    — Bailey Sincox, The Conversation, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Eichenberger recently converted one of the ponds into a small babbling brook to maintain a steady flow of water.
    — Lennie Omalza, Louisville Courier Journal, 19 Feb. 2026
Definition of babbling
Noun
  • Some children clustered there to jabber and run madly about, while others just wanted attention and knew how to get it.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • And given that these are not professional actors, or even (in most cases) people who aspire to be, LaBeouf’s words to them, full of deadly serious jabber about empathy and ego, are pumped up with an intensity that feels overdone and inappropriate.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 May 2025
Definition of jabber

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“Blab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blab. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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