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Definitions and meaning of slab

slab

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slæb/
• Rhymes: -æb

Etymology 1

From Middle English sclabbe, slabbe, of uncertain origin; possibly from *slap, related to dialectal slappel (“portion, piece”), along with slape (“slippery”), sleip (“smooth piece of timber”), borrowed through Old Norse sleipr from Proto-Germanic *slaipaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leyb-. See also Norwegian sleip (“slippery”) and Icelandic sleipur.

Noun

slab (plural slabs)

1. A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
2. A paving stone; a flagstone.
3. (Australia) A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer). [from 20th c.]
   • 2008, Diem Vo, Family Life, Alice Pung (editor), page 156,

     However, unlike in Ramsay Street, there were never any cups of tea or bickies served. Instead, each family unit came armed with a slab of beer.
4. An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
5. (nautical) The slack part of a sail.
6. (US, slang) A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile, or Cadillac.
7. (surfing) A very large wave.
8. (programming) The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.
9. (geology) Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.
10. (construction) A poured-concrete foundation for a building.
11. (geometry) A region between two parallel lines in the Euclidean plane, or between two parallel planes in three-dimensional Euclidean space, or between two hyperplanes in higher dimensions.
12. A flat, sealed plastic case that encloses a flat collector's item, such as a coin or a trading card.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

slab (third-person singular simple present slabs, present participle slabbing, simple past and past participle slabbed)

1. (transitive) To make into a slab.
2. (transitive, informal) To destroy (a structure) so completely as to leave only the foundation slab visible.

   Synonym: raze

Etymology 2

Compare Goidelic and Irish slaib (“mud, mire left on a river strand”), and English slop (“puddle”).

Noun

slab (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Mud, sludge.

Derived terms

• slabby

Adjective

slab (comparative more slab, superlative most slab)

1. (archaic) Thick; viscous.

Etymology 3

Acronym of Slow, Loud And Bangin'. This term been popularized through the southern rap genre of hip-hop, most notably by rappers such as Paul Wall, Chamillionaire, Lil' Keke, and others.

Noun

slab (plural slabs)

1. (Southern US, slang) A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories.
   • 2005, Chamillionaire (featuring Krayzie Bone), "Ridin'", The Sound of Revenge:

     Pull me over, try to check my slab

   • 2006, Trae (featuring Pimp C and Big Hawk), "Swang", Restless:

     I'mma swang, I'mma swing my slab lean to the left

Etymology 4

Noun

slab (plural slabs)

1. (British dialect, obsolete) A bird, the wryneck.

Etymology 5

From syllable.

Noun

slab (plural slabs)

1. (computing) A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “slab”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• labs, BLAS, BASL, albs, BLAs, BALs, Labs, LABs, B.L.A.S.

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• slabu

Etymology

From a Slavic language, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *slàbъ. Compare Romanian slab, Bulgarian and Macedonian слаб (slab), Serbo-Croatian slȁb.

Adjective

slab m (feminine slabã, masculine plural slaghi, feminine plural slabi or slabe)

1. weak
2. lean, thin, skinny
3. bad, wicked, evil

Synonyms

• (bad): arãu

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “weak”): vãrtos, cadãr, putut, ndrumin, silnãos
• (antonym(s) of “thin, lean”): gras
• (antonym(s) of “bad”): bun

Derived terms

• slãbintsã
• slãbushcu

Related terms

• slãghescu

Noun

slab m

1. evil

Synonyms

• arãu, rãu

Derived terms

• slabã

Dutch

Etymology

From slabdoek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slɑp/
• Hyphenation: slab
• Rhymes: -ɑp
• Homophone: slap

Noun

slab f (plural slabben, diminutive slabbetje n)

1. (also very common in the diminutive) bib

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English slab.

Noun

slab m (invariable)

1. slab (of metal to be worked)

   Synonym: bramma

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic слабъ (slabŭ), from Proto-Slavic *slàbъ. Compare Aromanian slab, Bulgarian and Macedonian слаб (slab), Serbo-Croatian slȁb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [slab]

Adjective

slab m or n (feminine singular slabă, masculine plural slabi, feminine and neuter plural slabe)

1. weak

   Antonym: puternic

2. thin, skinny

   Antonym: gras

Declension

Related terms

See also

• subțire

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *slàbъ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₂b- (“to be weak, limp, languid”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slâb/

Adjective

slȁb (Cyrillic spelling сла̏б, definite slȁbī, comparative slabiji)

1. weak

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *slàbъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sláp/

Adjective

slȁb (comparative slȃbši, superlative nȁjslȃbši)

1. bad (not good)
2. weak

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• preslȁb

Further reading

• “slab”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “slab”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

Source: wiktionary.org