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
- adj. fabulous (great or spectacular). The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, third edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, p. 652 (ISBN 0-395-44895-6)
- n. A manufacturing plant which fabricates items, particularly silicon chips.
- v. fabricate, especially in the context of fabbers
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. extremely pleasing.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. extremely pleasing
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 96 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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Neato Keen Words
My list of neato keen words.
fab, neato, keen, fantabulous, awesome, marvellous
samoritan ...also shorthand for "fabricate" Apr 23, 2008