slab
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Is slab a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (Australia) A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer).Examples: "The Australians murder a few slabs of beer and the New Zealanders murder a few vowels."; "The older man bought a slab of Coca-Cola at the counter and carried it out ahead of the younger man."; "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."Australia
2. (nautical) The slack part of a sail.
3. (surfing) A very large wave.Examples: "After being towed into a massive slab, Dorian dropped down the face and caught a rail, putting him in a near-impossible situation."; "In August 2000 he successfully rode a slab of unfathomable power at Teahupo′o."
4. (programming) The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.
5. (geology) Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.Examples: "Being driven by the gravitational force, the subducting Pacific slab continues to sink down to the boundary between the upper and lower mantle […]"
6. (construction) A poured-concrete foundation for a building.Examples: "Next week they'll pour the slab that the shed will sit on."
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To make into a slab.transitive
2. (transitive, informal) To destroy (a structure) so completely as to leave only the foundation slab visible.Examples: "Multiple homes were slabbed by the monster tornado."Synonyms: razeinformaltransitive
noun (English)
1. (archaic) Mud, sludge, or other viscous matter.Examples: "Some do also plant oziers in their eights, like quick-sets, thick, and (near the water) keep them not more than half a foot above ground; but then they must be diligently cleansed from moss, slab, and ouze, and frequently prun'd (especially the smaller spires) to form single shoots;[…]."archaicuncountable
adj (English)
1. (archaic) Thick; viscous.Examples: "Make the gruel thick and slab:"archaic
noun (English)
1. (Southern US, slang) A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories.Examples: "Pull me over, try to check my slab"; "I'mma swang, I'mma swing my slab lean to the left"; "All three of them recognized who the Lexus'^([sic]) belonged to so he parked his slab and they cocked their guns."Southern-USslang
noun (English)
1. (British dialect, obsolete) A bird, the wryneck.Britishdialectalobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary