slab

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Noun

1. A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
2. A paving stone; a flagstone.
3. A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer). .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
4. An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
5. The slack part of a sail.
6. A very large wave.
7. The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.
8. Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.
9. A poured-concrete foundation for a building.
   • Next week they'll pour the slab that the shed will sit on.
10. A region between two parallel lines in the Euclidean plane, or between two parallel planes in three-dimensional Euclidean space, or between two hyperplanes in higher dimensions.
11. Any of the several portions or tiers in a tax rate plan.
12. A flat, sealed plastic case that encloses a flat collector's item, such as a coin or a trading card.
13. A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile, or Cadillac.
14. Ellipsis of slab avalanche.

Verb

1. To make into a slab.
2. To destroy (a structure) so completely as to leave only the foundation slab visible.
   • Multiple homes were slabbed by the monster tornado.

Noun

1. Mud, sludge, or other viscous matter.

Adjective

1. Thick; viscous.

Noun

1. A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories.

Noun

1. A bird, the wryneck.

Noun

1. A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.

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