yakfest

English

Etymology

yak +‎ -fest

Noun

yakfest (plural yakfests)

1. (informal, sometimes derogatory) A session of chatter or gossip.
   • 2010, Philip Smith, Walking Through Walls: A Memoir (page 164)

     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.

   • 2008 February 3, Harvey Araton, “Prediction: Burress’s Projection Won’t Hurt”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     As Burress said, he wasn’t guaranteeing, merely predicting, enlisting in the army of visionaries during this weeklong yakfest.