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fab

1

[ fab ]

adjective

, Slang.


fab

2

[ fab ]

noun

  1. a factory for manufacturing, especially one for manufacturing the semiconductor devices used in computers and other advanced electronics (often used attributively):

    The newly built fab will create jobs in the community.

    He is an advisor at a fab lab nearby.

F.A.B.

1

interjection

  1. an expression of agreement to, or acknowledgment of, a command
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fab

2

/ fæb /

adjective

  1. short for fabulous
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interjection

  1. an expression of approval or enthusiasm
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FAB

3

abbreviation for

  1. flavoured alcoholic beverage
  2. fuel air bomb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fab1

First recorded in 1960–65; by shortening

Origin of fab2

First recorded in 1980–85; shortened from fabrication ( def )
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fab1

C20: from British television series Thunderbirds
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Example Sentences

The Beatles Story Museum features a replica of the Cavern Club and a Fab 4D animated cinema show.

The Fab Four swam up out of the developing bath, youngsters again on the verge of everything.

Fab Five Freddy, DJ Lindsay Luv, and others recall his legacy.

Not since the high-gloss first lady started flaunting those glistening ab-fab Obama-arms, the body part du jour.

This insect varies so much in colour, that I almost think it to be the same species with the following S. cyanipes, Fab.

Not long after, the earle of Chester going ouer to Wales, with long and continual warres tired and Fab.

Fab′ulist, one who invents fables; Fabulos′ity, Fab′ulousness.

It is, as to its general shape, similarly constructed in Agrion Fab.

For illustrations of the fable of this play, compare Hyginus, Fab.

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