slab
noun
- broad flat rigid object
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /slæb/
adj
Etymology: Compare Scottish Gaelic slàib (“mud”) and Irish slaba (“muddy flat”), and English slop (“puddle”).
- Thick; viscous.
“Make the gruel thick and slab:”
noun
Etymology: From syllable.
- A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.
verb
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.
- To make into a slab.
- To destroy (a structure) so completely as to leave only the foundation slab visible.
“Multiple homes were slabbed by the monster tornado.”