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Verb: blab (blabbed,blabbing) blab Usage: informal
- Divulge confidential information or secrets
"Be careful--his secretary blabs"; - spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, peach [informal], babble, sing [informal], babble out, blab out [informal], give the game away - Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
- chatter, piffle, palaver [informal], prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle [informal], clack [informal], maunder, prattle, gibber, tattle, blabber [informal], gabble, vapour [Brit, Cdn], rabbit [Brit, informal], vapor [US], twattle [UK, dialect], witter [Brit, informal], yabber [Brit, informal], yatter [Brit, informal]
Derived forms: blabbing, blabbed, blabs Type of: break, bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, give away, lay bare, let on, let out, mouth, reveal, speak, talk, uncover, unwrap, utter, verbalise [Brit], verbalize Encyclopedia: Blab |