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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Line Of Gab

line of business
line of centers
line of credit
line of defence
line of defense
line of demarcation
line of descent
line of destiny
line of dip
line of duty
line of fate
line of fire
line of fixation
line of flight
line of force
line of gab (current term)
line of heart
line of inquiry
line of latitude
line of least resistance
line of life
line of longitude
line of march
line of merchandise
line of nodes
line of occlusion
line of operations
line of play
line of poetry
line of products

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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