Did you by any chance mean dab?
Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal Fabrication: building a shed of metal fab.
- adj. Slang Fabulous; wonderful.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A Scotch form of fob.
Wiktionary
- n. A manufacturing plant which fabricates items, particularly silicon chips.
- v. fabricate, especially in the context of fabbers
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. colloq. extremely pleasing.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. extremely pleasing
Etymologies
- From fabulous, by shortening (Wiktionary)
Examples
“How do you think pre-fab is particularly appropriate for sustainable architecture?”
“Imagine, the concept of pre-fab is what, 900 years old?”
“Update: As so often is the case, the best commentary on this comes from Jamais Cascio, who also coins a fab neologism in this context:”
“Shanghai is one fab, which is the make up that positive.”
“Sony Ericsson hopes that the three new models, the Vivaz and the Xperia X10 - which the company has dubbed the fab five - will help turn around the company's fortunes.”
“Sony Ericsson hopes that the three new models, the Vivaz and the Xperia X10 -- which the company has dubbed the fab five -- will help turn around the company's fortunes.”
“Scot Boland will be setting up shop in the Shippan Point Room at the th and from 12 noon to 8 p.m. on November 29th, these casting agents will be meeting with aspiring singers, actors & musicians who'd be interested in appearing in what (for this set of auditions, anyway) is being called the fab four feature film.”
“What we are seeing is a levelling out in the Prem, with our so-called fab clubs - Man United and Chelsea - suddenly vulnerable, losing points all over the shop, while the lower classes are likely to upset the toffs.”
“Ruiz noted that the chip factory, known as a fab, will be near two research partners: the state-run College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering in Albany, and IBM Corp., which has a facility farther down the Hudson Valley in East Fishkill.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fab’.
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Noteworthy Words
Here I have in mind a list of words that could be spelled with only the letters A, B, C, D, E, F, and G--and thus could also be played as a tune on the piano.
face, ace, bag, cage, bad, fad, fade, fee, gee, beg, fed, deaf and 98 more...
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• Words I often hear at my workplace
We don't know much of each other. (And this is probably why we still like each other.)
Add a word you hear at your workplace, and increase the mistery.
(One at a time, as in a spy story.)cathemerality, phylogenetics, lead generation, acquisitions, haha response, barcode, arthur or martha ..., venti, pedagogically, symphony product, p and ls, recovery process and 100 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
ace, act, ade, ado, add, ads, age, ago, ail, air, aim, all and 397 more...
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test2029
humblebrag, bar, foo, hotel, california, FO, Mint, Shiznit, aw, sexy, BUMMERS, thatch and 29 more...
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Neato Keen Words
My list of neato keen words.
fab, neato, keen, fantabulous, awesome, marvellous, hubba, yurt, kempt, effete, jumbo, italic and 2 more...
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Twitter faves
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
gonk, nerking, guap, gimp, fabulous, dabble, fabilicious, tragic, zooted, hey, cheekini, nugget and 457 more... -
Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 1972 more... -
Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
grabbable, retuiteando, leaving, fantastic, absolutely, kurwa, hella, ridic, underpass, hate, interlude, plush and 2369 more... -
Fun with Apocopes
Words created by removing the end of a longer or original word. See also Fun with Aphesis.
abs, ad, bio, veg, veggie, tux, auto, bike, carbs, pecs, bro, sis and 186 more...
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Junk
walrus, fascination, broadway, fickle, downturn, bridge, gargle, rotunda, mesh, fab, shortlife, strumming and 304 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Fashionable Alternatives
Fashionable in two syllables or less. Words that fade quickly.
in vogue, spiffy, chic, smart, snappy, trendy, tasty, au courant, downtown, hep, hip, cool and 26 more...
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Choppers
Words that have been cut down from their original glory, ie. apocopes, but are still 'understandable' in the chopped form. eg. doc for doctor. Most of them are horribilisms, I know :-( Let's keep t...
doc, rep, van, bus, fridge, pub, flu, hon, santa, diff, blog, exam and 49 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for fab.
samoritan ...also shorthand for "fabricate" Apr 23, 2008