SLAB

slab

(noun) block consisting of a thick piece of something

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Noun

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.

Verb

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

(transitive) To make something into a slab.

Etymology 2

Noun

slab (plural slabs)

(archaic) Mud, sludge.

Adjective

slab (comparative more slab, superlative most slab)

(archaic) Thick; viscous.

Etymology 3

Acronym of Slow, Loud And Bangin'.

Noun

slab (plural slabs)

(Southern US, slang) A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories.

Usage notes

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.

Anagrams

• 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