slab.
A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
Meaning & usage
A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
A paving stone; a flagstone.
A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer).
An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
The slack part of a sail.
A very large wave.
The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.
Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.
A poured-concrete foundation for a building.
Next week they'll pour the slab that the shed will sit on.
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.
Any of the several portions or tiers in a tax rate plan.
A flat, sealed plastic case that encloses a flat collector's item, such as a coin or a trading card.
A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile, or Cadillac.
Ellipsis of slab avalanche.
Where this word comes from
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.
To make into a slab.
To destroy (a structure) so completely as to leave only the foundation slab visible.
Multiple homes were slabbed by the monster tornado.
Where this word comes from
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.
Mud, sludge, or other viscous matter.
Where this word comes from
Compare Scottish Gaelic slàib (“mud”) and Irish slaba (“muddy flat”), and English slop (“puddle”).
Thick; viscous.
Where this word comes from
Compare Scottish Gaelic slàib (“mud”) and Irish slaba (“muddy flat”), and English slop (“puddle”).
A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories.
Where this word comes from
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.
A bird, the wryneck.
A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.
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