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babs

/bæbz/

babs is the plural of bab.

babs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bab.

Meaning of bab

Noun (1)

bab (plural babs)

  1. (UK, informal) A baby.
    Synonyms:
    baby

Noun (2)

bab (plural babs)

  1. (East-Anglia) A bait for eels, consisting of a bundle of live worms.
    • The worms were threaded onto the yarn until we had 4 or 5 feet of big juicy worms threaded through. We would coil it all up and put an old rusty nut at the centre and tie it on a bit of string on an old ash pole — this was the bab.2006 February 1, John Meiklejohn, “Babbing for eels”, in BBC - WW2 People's War
    Synonyms:
    clod

See all 4 meanings of bab

Proper noun capitalized: Babs

Babs

  1. A diminutive of the female given name Barbara.

Origin of babs

From the clipping of Barbara + -s (hypocoristic suffix).

Words that rhyme with babs

Questions about babs

What does babs mean?
Babs means a diminutive of the female given name Barbara.
What is babs the plural of?
Babs is the plural of bab.
What part of speech is babs?
Babs is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce babs?
Babs is pronounced /bæbz/.

Words near babs in the dictionary

  1. babracot
  2. babracoted
  3. babracoting
  4. babracots
  5. Babruysk
  6. babs
  7. Babson
  8. BABT
  9. babu
  10. babu English
  11. Babua

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Adapted from Wiktionary: babs (page history and authors); Babs (page history and authors); bab (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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