yakfest
English
Etymology
yak + -fest
Noun
yakfest (plural yakfests)
- (informal, sometimes derogatory) A session of chatter or gossip.
- 2010, Philip Smith, Walking Through Walls: A Memoir (page 164)
- At any given moment, Pop would be having a yakfest with someone on the other side who would be diagnosing one of his patients or training him in some new form of healing.
- 2008 February 3, Harvey Araton, “Prediction: Burress’s Projection Won’t Hurt”, in New York Times:
- As Burress said, he wasn’t guaranteeing, merely predicting, enlisting in the army of visionaries during this weeklong yakfest.
- 2010, Philip Smith, Walking Through Walls: A Memoir (page 164)