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hab

hab noun: a habitation or habitation facility.

Noun (1)

hab (plural habs)

  1. A habitation or habitation facility.
  2. (informal) A house.
  3. (informal) A habanero.
    • You mix habs into the cheese before stuffing your poppers […]2003, James D. Campbell, Mr. Chilehead: Adventures in the Taste of Pain, page 168

Noun (2) capitalized: HAB

HAB (plural HABs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of horizontal assembly building.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of heavy assembly building.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of harmful algal bloom.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of high-altitude balloon.

Noun (3) capitalized: Hab

Hab (plural Habs)

  1. A member of the Montreal Canadiens hockey team.

Forms of hab

pluralhabs
pluralHABs
pluralHabs

Plural of hab: habs

Origin of hab

Clipping of the various words indicated in the definitions.

Back-formation from Habs.

Questions about hab

What does hab mean?
Hab means a habitation or habitation facility.
What part of speech is hab?
Hab is a noun.
What is the plural of hab?
The plural of hab is habs.

Words near hab in the dictionary

  1. Haast
  2. Haast's eagle
  3. Haast's eagles
  4. haat
  5. haats
  6. hab
  7. hab or nab
  8. hab.
  9. hab. corp.
  10. Habab
  11. habability

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