gabfest

noun

1. (US, slang)An occasion (such as a meeting) where people talk at length.

   “But he could as well have been talking about the confabulations of the food summit in Rome earlier this year or the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg next month. I have no doubt critics are dusting off the cliches for that one, preparing to denounce one more gabfest.”

   “Oh, we've been talking about constitutional reform since 1927. I've been going to these gabfests since the fifties.”