The phrase "a gab" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a conversation or chat, often informal or light-hearted in nature.
Example: "After a long day at work, I enjoyed a gab with my friends over coffee."
Alternatives: "a chat" or "a talk".
What she needs is "a stiff drink and a gab".
A gab fest for some of the richest and cleverest people in the world, but still a gab fest.
Davos is not a decision-making forum, it is a gab fest.
Gab founder and CEO of the service, Andrew Torba, insisted in a "gab" that "we welcome everyone and always will".
It's a place to have fun with friends, do a bit of cruising and maybe have a gab with the gypsy fortune tellers at the corner table.
When The Independent's photographer came to my house, I did exactly that, and it took around 20 minutes – which included ample time to pause for a gab.
Whilst there is no evidence for bona fide Gab/DOS proteins in either the Monosiga nor Trichoplax genomes (our own observations), we and the Feller group identified a Gab-like protein in the Nematostella genome (GenBank entry XP_001636529; [ 42]).
Since models of VASP-mediated actin assembly propose that a GAB-bound actin monomer is handed over directly to the barbed end of the FAB-bound filament (Ferron et al, 2007; Breitsprecher et al, 2008; Dickinson, 2009), we assumed that the short 18 residues linker of hVASP might impair this transfer and hence cause the lower elongation activity compared with DdVASP.
Taken together, these data suggest that at least the Gab/Crk, Gab/PLCγ and Gab/PI3K connections were already established in the precambrium and that a Gab-like docking protein was an early feature of the metazoan PTK signalling toolkit (Fig. 4A).
The strength of the CD response increases with increasing amounts of the helicene additive, with 7% helicene giving a gabs value of 0.03 and 53% helicene giving a significantly large gabs value of 0.20.
But that is not easy for a Southerner with a gift of gab, a self-taught historian and a mother of three who takes umbrage at how the sugar companies, the fur companies and the oil companies have each come to the region and extracted its bounty.
