Definitions for slabs

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Spelling: [slab]

IPA: /slæb/

Slabs is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in slabs (ablss).

Definitions for slabs

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 slabs

1250-1300; Middle English sclabbe, slabbe

Examples for slabs

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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