Definitions for slab

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slab slab

Spelling: [slab]

IPA: /slæb/

Slab is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in slab (abls).

Definitions for slab

noun

1. a broad, flat, somewhat thick piece of stone, wood, or other solid material.
2. a thick slice of anything:
3. a semifinished piece of iron or steel so rolled that its breadth is at least twice its thickness.
4. a rough outside piece cut from a log, as when sawing one into boards.
5. Baseball Slang. rubber1 (def 14).
6. Building Trades. a section of concrete pavement or a concrete floor placed directly on the ground or on a base of gravel.

adjective

1. thick; viscous.

verb (used with object)

1. to make into a slab or slabs.
2. to cover or lay with slabs.
3. to cut the slabs or outside pieces from (a log).
4. to put on in slabs; cover thickly.

Origin of slab

1250-1300; Middle English sclabbe, slabbe

Examples for slab

The school—a slab of concrete, surrounded by a perimeter of depilated classrooms—resembles a prison.

A group of Bolivian miners must have received the shock of their lives when they uncovered a slab with 5,055 gigantic footprints.

In Ferguson, Missouri, the bullet-ridden body of Michael Brown lies on a slab somewhere, and his parents await justice, and mourn.

But this slab of black basalt was different from anything that had ever been discovered.

Taking up a Bondon, she turned it round, and put it down on the slab again.

To be sure, tryptophan as a white pill, not a slab of white meat, is used by some as a sleeping aid.

Steenie stood smiling and undecided on the slab in front of the doorstep.

After the rain ended, we took a bottle of wine to a slab of granite rock just beyond camp for a sundowner.

Then I come on a slab of gray stone upstanding about fifteen feet.

The slab moved upward an inch or two, grating in its rough grooves.