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yakfest en · NOUN

Etymology

From yak + -fest.

Meanings

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:

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