lab
1 Americannoun
noun
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Informal. Labrador retriever.
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life’s a bitch (used to acknowledge, often dismissively, a difficult or unfair circumstance).
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labor.
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laboratory.
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laborer.
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Laborite.
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Labrador.
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politics Labour
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Labrador
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short for laboratory
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short for Labrador retriever
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laboratory
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labour
Etymology
Origin of lab1
By shortening
Origin of Lab2
By shortening
Origin of LAB3
From its use in digital communications
Example Sentences
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The gap between the lab and the data center is where reputations go to be tested and frequently to die.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026
She hopes to pursue a career in forensic science, as either a crime scene or crime lab analyst.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026
Wang, a research professor at Washington University in St. Louis and a fellow of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, has recreated Martian conditions in the lab to study these effects.
From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026
Noah Petro, head of NASA's planetary geology lab, told AFP that the Moon will look to the astronauts "about the size of a basketball held at arm's length."
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
Farther away, in his basement lab at the University of Washington in Seattle, however, Steve Malone was beginning to feel certain that the conclusions from Swanson’s and Johnston’s work were wrong.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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