Usually means: Thick, flat piece of material.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word slab:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. slab: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. slab: Merriam-Webster
  3. slab: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. slab, slab: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. slab: Collins English Dictionary
  6. slab: Vocabulary.com
  7. Slab, slab: Wordnik
  8. slab: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. slab: Wiktionary
  10. slab: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. slab: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. slab: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. slab: Dictionary.com
  14. slab: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. slab: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. SLAB, Slab (casting), Slab (comics), Slab (geology), Slab (unit), Slab, The Slab: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Slab: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. slab: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. slab: Rhymezone
  20. Slab, slab (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. slab: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. SLAB: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. slab: FreeDictionary.org
  24. slab: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. slab: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Coin Collecting Glossary (No longer online)
  2. mosaic glossary (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. slab: Legal dictionary
  3. slab: Financial dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slab: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SLAB: Acronym Finder
  2. slab: Magic or Madness
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Earthquake Image Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Slab: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. slab, slab, slab: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. Slab: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. S.L.A.B, The Slab: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  3. slab: Coin Collecting

(Note: See slabbed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
noun:  A paving stone; a flagstone.
noun:  (Australia) A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer).
noun:  An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
noun:  (nautical) The slack part of a sail.
noun:  (US, slang) A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile, or Cadillac.
noun:  (surfing) A very large wave.
noun:  (programming) The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.
noun:  (geology) Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.
noun:  (construction) A poured-concrete foundation for a building.
noun:  (geometry) 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.
noun:  A flat, sealed plastic case that encloses a flat collector's item, such as a coin or a trading card.
verb:  (transitive) To make into a slab.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To destroy (a structure) so completely as to leave only the foundation slab visible.
noun:  (archaic) Mud, sludge.
adjective:  (archaic) Thick; viscous.
noun:  (Southern US, slang) A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories.
noun:  (British dialect, obsolete) A bird, the wryneck.
noun:  (computing) A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.

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