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tab out

tab out verb: to pay one's tab and leave a bar.

Verb

tab out (third-person singular simple present tabs out, present participle tabbing out, simple past and past participle tabbed out)

  1. (dated, intransitive, slang) To pay one's tab and leave a bar.
  2. To press the Tab key and a modifier key to move between tabs or windows.
    • Let me tab out and check on that for you.

Forms of tab out

third-person singular presenttabs out
present participletabbing out
past participletabbed out
pasttabbed out

Questions about tab out

What does tab out mean?
Tab out means to pay one's tab and leave a bar.
What part of speech is tab out?
Tab out is a verb.
What is the past tense of tab out?
The past tense of tab out is tabbed out.

Words near tab out in the dictionary

  1. tab leader
  2. tab leaders
  3. tab nabbing
  4. tab order
  5. tab orders
  6. tab out
  7. tab page
  8. tab pages
  9. tab stop
  10. tab stops
  11. taba

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