slab
/slæb/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.49 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A paving stone; a flagstone.
noun
Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.
Example Sentences
- "There were no windows in the inn. They were not required, since the interstices between the slabs suffered the wind, the rain, and the light of day to penetrate simultaneously."
- "Then there was the Mexican who sold big slabs of chewing taffy for five cents each. […] And many a day I made my entire lunch off of one of those slabs."
- "I was working in the lab late one night When my eyes beheld an eerie sight For my monster, from his slab, began to rise And suddenly, to my surprise He did the Mash He did the Monster Mash."
- "“The pier? You mean those few sodden logs tied together and that dingy slab of rough concrete.”"
- "The Australians murder a few slabs of beer and the New Zealanders murder a few vowels."
- "The older man bought a slab of Coca-Cola at the counter and carried it out ahead of the younger man."
Etymology
From Middle English sclabbe, slabbe, of uncertain origin; possibly from *slap, related to dialectal slappel (“portion, piece”), along with slape (“slippery”), sleip (“smooth piece of timber”), borrowed through Old Norse sleipr from Proto-Germanic *slaipaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leyb-. See also Norwegian sleip (“slippery”) and Icelandic sleipur.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: sclabbe, sleipr, *slaipaz, *(s)leyb-
Usage
Inflected Forms
slabs (plural)
slabs (present, singular)
slabbing (participle, present)
slabbed (participle, past)
slabbed (past)
slabber (comparative)
more slab (comparative)
slabbest (superlative)
most slab (superlative)