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yakfest

yakfest noun: a session of chatter or gossip.

Noun

yakfest (plural yakfests)

  1. (derogatory, informal, sometimes) A session of chatter or gossip.
    • 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.2010, Philip Smith, Walking Through Walls: A Memoir, page 164
    • As Burress said, he wasn’t guaranteeing, merely predicting, enlisting in the army of visionaries during this weeklong yakfest.2008 February 3, Harvey Araton, “Prediction: Burress’s Projection Won’t Hurt”, in New York Times

Forms of yakfest

pluralyakfests

Origin of yakfest

From yak + -fest.

Questions about yakfest

What does yakfest mean?
Yakfest means a session of chatter or gossip.
What part of speech is yakfest?
Yakfest is a noun.
What is the plural of yakfest?
The plural of yakfest is yakfests.

Words near yakfest in the dictionary

  1. Yakeshi
  2. yakety-yak
  3. yakety-yakked
  4. yakety-yakking
  5. yakety-yaks
  6. yakfest
  7. yakfests
  8. yakgwa
  9. Yakhai
  10. yakhchal
  11. yakhchals

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