Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Fabrication.
- adjective Fabulous; wonderful.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Scotch form of
fob .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective colloq. extremely pleasing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A manufacturing plant which fabricates items, particularly
silicon chips . - verb
fabricate , especially in the context offabbers
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective extremely pleasing
Etymologies
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Examples
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How do you think pre-fab is particularly appropriate for sustainable architecture?
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Imagine, the concept of pre-fab is what, 900 years old?
History retold Candace 2005
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Update: As so often is the case, the best commentary on this comes from Jamais Cascio, who also coins a fab neologism in this context:
Archive 2007-01-01 glyn moody 2007
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This lack of revenues from this customer will continue in the second half and requires us to reduce production significantly in one specific fab, which is largely dedicated to these affected products.
unknown title 2011
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Sony Ericsson hopes that the three new models, the Vivaz and the Xperia X10 -- which the company has dubbed the fab five -- will help turn around the company's fortunes.
PCWorld 2010
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Shanghai is one fab, which is the make up that positive.
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Sony Ericsson hopes that the three new models, the Vivaz and the Xperia X10 -- which the company has dubbed the fab five -- will help turn around the company's fortunes.
Techworld.com News 2010
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Sony Ericsson hopes that the three new models, the Vivaz and the Xperia X10 - which the company has dubbed the fab five - will help turn around the company's fortunes.
PC Advisor News 2010
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Scot Boland will be setting up shop in the Shippan Point Room at the th and from 12 noon to 8 p.m. on November 29th, these casting agents will be meeting with aspiring singers, actors & musicians who'd be interested in appearing in what (for this set of auditions, anyway) is being called the fab four feature film.
Jim Hill Media 2009
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What we are seeing is a levelling out in the Prem, with our so-called fab clubs - Man United and Chelsea - suddenly vulnerable, losing points all over the shop, while the lower classes are likely to upset the toffs.
New Statesman 2009
samoritan commented on the word fab
...also shorthand for "fabricate"
April 23, 2008