yakfest

English edit

yak +‎ -fest

yakfest (plural yakfests)

(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.