slab

Plural: slabs

Noun

• block consisting of a thick piece of something
• A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
• A paving stone; a flagstone.
• A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer).
• An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
• The slack part of a sail.
• A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile, or Cadillac.
• A very large wave.
• The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.
• Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.
• A poured-concrete foundation for a building.
• A region between two parallel lines in the Euclidean plane, or between two parallel planes in three-dimensional Euclidean space, or between two hyperplanes in higher dimensions.
• A flat, sealed plastic case that encloses a flat collector's item, such as a coin or a trading card.
• Mud, sludge, or other viscous matter.
• A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories.
• A bird, the wryneck.
• A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.

Verb

Verb Forms: slabbed, slabbing, slabs

• To cover something with broad, flat pieces of material.
• To make into a slab.
• To destroy (a structure) so completely as to leave only the foundation slab visible.

Adj

• Thick; viscous.

Examples

• He decided to SLAB over the weak opening with a strong, defensive word.
• Multiple homes were slabbed by the monster tornado.

Synonyms

raze

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