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sab

sab verb: to sabotage, especially fox hunts in opposition to blood sports. Also the alternative form of sab..

Verb

sab (third-person singular simple present sabs, present participle sabbing, simple past and past participle sabbed)

  1. (informal) To sabotage, especially fox hunts in opposition to blood sports.

Noun (1)

sab (plural sabs)

  1. (informal) A saboteur, especially of fox hunts.

Noun (2)

sab (plural sabs)

  1. (UK, slang) A sabbatical officer.

Noun (3) capitalized: SAB

SAB

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of scientific/science advisory board.

Proper noun capitalized: Sab

Sab

  1. A diminutive of the female given name Sabrina.
    • It turns out Sab [Sabrina Carpenter] caught an advanced screening of Saltburn in New York City on September 20 and posed with a fan!2024 September 17, “Here’s a Rundown on Sabrina Carpenter and Barry Keoghan’s ‘Ship”, in Cosmopolitan, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2024

Also used as

sab is also the alternative form of sab..

Forms of sab

Verb
third-person singular presentsabs
present participlesabbing
past participlesabbed
pastsabbed
Noun
pluralsabs
alternative formsabb

Origin of sab

Short for sabotage.

Short for sable.

Clipping of Sabrina.

Questions about sab

What does sab mean?
Sab means to sabotage, especially fox hunts in opposition to blood sports.
What part of speech is sab?
Sab can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of sab?
The past tense of sab is sabbed.

Words near sab in the dictionary

  1. Saathoffs
  2. Saatlı
  3. Saavedra
  4. Saavedras
  5. saawanwa
  6. sab
  7. sab.
  8. saba
  9. Saba Island
  10. Saba Rock
  11. sabaconid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sab (page history and authors); SAB (page history and authors); Sab (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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