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UK:**UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈslæb/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/slæb/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(slab)

Inflections of 'slab' (v): (⇒ conjugate)
slabs
v 3rd person singular
slabbing
v pres p
slabbed
v past
slabbed
v past p

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
slab1 /slæb/USA pronunciation   n., v., slabbed, slab•bing. 
n. [countable]
  1. a broad, flat, somewhat thick piece of stone, wood, or other solid material.
  2. a thick piece or slice of anything:a slab of bread.

v. [~ + object]
  1. to put on in slabs or layers:to slab butter on the bread.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
slab1  (slab),USA pronunciation n., v., slabbed, slab•bing. 
n. 
  1. a broad, flat, somewhat thick piece of stone, wood, or other solid material.
  2. a thick slice of anything:a slab of bread.
  3. Metallurgya semifinished piece of iron or steel so rolled that its breadth is at least twice its thickness.
  4. Buildinga rough outside piece cut from a log, as when sawing one into boards.
  5. Sport[Baseball Slang.]rubber (def. 14).
  6. Buildinga section of concrete pavement or a concrete floor placed directly on the ground or on a base of gravel.

v.t. 
  1. Buildingto make into a slab or slabs.
  2. Buildingto cover or lay with slabs.
  3. Buildingto cut the slabs or outside pieces from (a log).
  4. to put on in slabs;
    cover thickly.
  • ?
  • Middle English sclabbe, slabbe 1250–1300

slab2  (slab),USA pronunciation adj. Scot and North Eng.
  1. Scottish Termsthick;
    viscous.
  • Scandinavian; compare Swedish, Norwegian slabb mire, Icelandic slabba to wade in mud
  • apparently 1595–1605

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
slab /slæb/ n
  1. a broad flat thick piece of wood, stone, or other material
  2. a thick slice of cake, etc
  3. any of the outside parts of a log that are sawn off while the log is being made into planks
  4. (modifier) Austral NZ made or constructed of coarse wooden planks: a slab hut
  5. informal chiefly Brit an operating or mortuary table
  6. chiefly Brit Austral informal a package containing 24 cans of beer
 vb (slabs, slabbing, slabbed) (transitive)
  1. to cut or make into a slab or slabs
  2. to saw slabs from (a log)
Etymology: 13th Century: of unknown origin
'slab' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
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Collocations: a slab of [marble, stone, concrete, granite, wood], a [marble] slab, carved from a slab of [marble], more...

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