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Definition of Line of gab
1. Noun. Plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson).
Exact synonyms: Patter, Spiel
Generic synonyms: Channel, Communication Channel, Line
Derivative terms: Spiel
Generic synonyms: Channel, Communication Channel, Line
Derivative terms: Spiel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Line Of Gab
Literary usage of Line of gab
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ten Years at Yale: A Series of Papers on Certain Defects in the University by George Frederick Gundelfinger (1915)
"Could one ask for a better description of the "line of gab" which certain vaudeville
stars "hand out" to their audience? Bergson's book is written in the ..."
2. The Big Town: How I and the Mrs. Go to New York to See Life and Get Katie a by Ring Lardner, Bobbs-Merrill Company, Braunworth & Co (1921)
""You ain't going to beat up nobody's wife or nobody's husband," I says, "and if
you don't cut out that line of gab ..."
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