slab
(noun) block consisting of a thick piece of something
Source: WordNet® 3.1
slab (plural slabs)
A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
A paving stone; a flagstone.
(Australia) A carton containing 24 cans of beer.
An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
A bird, the wryneck.
(nautical) The slack part of a sail.
(slang) A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile or Cadillac.
(surfing) A very large wave.
(computing) A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.
(geology) Part of a tectonic plate that is being subducted.
slab (third-person singular simple present slabs, present participle slabbing, simple past and past participle slabbed)
(transitive) To make something into a slab.
slab (plural slabs)
(archaic) Mud, sludge.
slab (comparative more slab, superlative most slab)
(archaic) Thick; viscous.
Acronym of Slow, Loud And Bangin'.
slab (plural slabs)
(Southern US, slang) A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories.
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.
• B.L.A.S., BALs, BASL, BLAs, LABs, Labs, albs, labs
Source: Wiktionary
Slab, n. Etym: [OE. slabbe, of uncertain origin; perhaps originally meaning, a smooth piece, and akin to slape, Icel. sleipr slippery, and E. slip, v. i.]
1. A thin piece of anything, especially of marble or other stone, having plane surfaces. Gwilt.
2. An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
3. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The wryneck. [Prov. Eng.]
4. (Naut.)
Definition: The slack part of a sail. Slab line (Naut.), a line or small rope by which seamen haul up the foot of the mainsail or foresail. Totten.
Slab, a. Etym: [Cf. Gael. & Ir. slaib mud, mire left on a river strand, and E. slop puddle.]
Definition: Thick; viscous. [Obs.] Make the gruel thick and slab. Shak.
Slab, n.
Definition: That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle. [Obs.] Evelyn.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
