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gab shop
gab shop n. colloquial (now rare) a part of government regarded as the source of a great deal of (inconsequential) talk or communications.
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1797 M. Robinson Walsingham IV. 13 ‘I always dose at the gab-shop’ [i.e. the House of Commons], replied he.
1878 Queenslander 22 June 369/3 Our weekly exposure of the rhetorical artifices in current use in the national gab-shop.
1951 Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-eye Gaz. 27 Nov. 4/4 Edward Barrett, assistant secretary of state for public affairs, runs the gab shop over in the state department.
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