ˈtalkfest slang (chiefly U.S.).
[f. talk n. or v. + fest.]
A session of lengthy discussion or conversation, a ‘talkathon’. Cf. gabfest.
| 1906 S. Ford Shorty McCabe ii. 36 Perhaps it'll be the grand annual ball of the Truck Drivers' Association, or just one of them Anarchist talkfests in the back room of some beer parlor. 1928 W. A. White Masks in Pageant 247 He stepped naturally into supremacy at that talkfest [sc. a political convention] because he had been training for his famous speech. 1948 Sun (Baltimore) 18 June 19/4 (heading) County boy, girl win in 4-H ‘talkfest’. 1961 B. Pike Robert Musil viii. 167 Action is somehow made to seem irrelevant and trivial in this enormous talkfest. 1972 J. Potts Trouble-Maker vii. 50 She wanted no part of the talkfest that was sure to occupy her fellow guests. |