Definition of SLAB

slab

Meanings

Plural: slabs

Noun

  • block consisting of a thick piece of something
  • 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 large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile, or Cadillac.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A flat, sealed plastic case that encloses a flat collector's item, such as a coin or a trading card.
  • Mud, sludge.
  • A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories.
  • A bird, the wryneck.
  • A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.

Verb

  • To make into a slab.
  • To destroy (a structure) so completely as to leave only the foundation slab visible.

Adj

  • Thick; viscous.

Origin / Etymology

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.

Synonyms

raze

Scrabble Score: 6

slab is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
slab is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
slab is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

slab is a valid Words With Friends word