jabber

verb jab·ber \ ˈja-bər \

|Updated on: 7 Jul 2018

Examples: jabber in a Sentence

Definition of jabber

jabbered; jabbering play \ˈja-b(ə-)riŋ\

intransitive verb

: to talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly

transitive verb

: to speak rapidly or indistinctly

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jabberer

play \ˈja-bər-ər\ noun

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Examples of jabber in a Sentence

They jabbered away for hours.
She rushed into the room jabbering something about a dog.

Recent Examples of jabber from the Web

But the sounds of residents enjoying the park during the performance also became part of the piece: jabbering boys with bikes; mothers with babies in strollers; toddlers who approached the singers to hear booming operatic tones close up.

— New York Times, "A Musical Solstice Spectacle Sprawls Across New York," 22 June 2018
There’s no long wait ’cause I’ve already clocked it while everyone’s going [jabbering] meh-meh-meh.

— j.j. gould, The New Republic, "Wrong ’Em Boyo," 22 Mar. 2018
The only way to get beyond jabbering to ourselves about free trade, and humanitarian intervention absent any concern for the life of the nation itself, was this man whose popularity finally exploded our elite consensus.

— michael brendan dougherty, National Review, "Was It for This?," 17 Jan. 2018
On the hourlong ride home, Jadon played with a ball while big brother Aza jabbered for much of the time.

— CNN, "The formerly conjoined McDonald twins' amazing journey home," 7 Sep. 2017
This was a game full of weird little pauses, referee conversations, referee corrections, weird calls, many free throws, jabbering and technical fouls.

— tim kawakami, The Mercury News, "Kawakami: The imperfect game for Warriors, refs and everybody except Cavs," 9 June 2017
Andrew Garland, as the terminally ill Prior, sings with confidence, as does Aaron Blake as Louis, his shifty boyfriend — here a smoother talker (and singer) than Mr. Kushner’s jabbering hysteric.

— zachary woolfe, New York Times, "Review: ‘Angels in America,’ Carved to the Bone and Into an Opera," 11 June 2017

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