slab
English
/slæb/
noun
Definitions
- (Australia) A carton containing 24 cans of beer.
- (nautical) The slack part of a sail.
- (slang) A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile or Cadillac.
- (surfing) A very large wave.
- (computing) A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.
- (geology) Part of a tectonic plate that is being subducted.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English sclabbe derived from Old Norse sleipr derived from Proto-Germanic *slaipaz derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leyb-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)leyb-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Slabber English
- back English
- backslab English
- door English
- doorslab English
- fondle English
- fondleslab English
- intraslab English
- slabbiness English
- slabby English
- slablike English
- slabwise English
- wind English
- windslab English
- slab Italian
- *(s)leyb- Proto-Indo-European
- *slaipaz Proto-Germanic
- sclabbe Middle English
- sleipr Old Norse
- sleipur Icelandic
- sleip Jamtish