Word Originearly 18th cent.: variant of gob ‘mouth’.
Idioms
See gab in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarythe gift of the gab (British English)
(US English a gift for/of gab)
- (informal, sometimes disapproving) the ability to speak easily and to persuade other people with your words
- Joe’s got the gift of the gab—he can sell anything.
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