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Lab   /læb/   Listen
noun
lab  n.  
1.
A telltale; a prater; a blabber. (Obs.) "I am no lab."
2.
Laboratory. (Colloq.)


verb
Lab  v. i.  To prate; to gossip; to babble; to blab. (Obs.)


adjective
lab  adj.  Of or pertaining to a laboratory; as, a lab bench. (Colloq.)





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"Lab" Quotes from Famous Books



... at home," Jason said. "The old Pyrran hospitality." Brucco only grunted and stamped out. Jason followed him down a bare corridor into a sterile lab. ...
— Deathworld • Harry Harrison
... a little worse than the one before; in about five years, they'll be making H-bombs in the lab," Prestonby said. In the last week, a dozen pupils had been seriously cut or blackjacked in hall and locker-room fights. "Nice citizens of the future; nice future to look forward to ...
— Null-ABC • Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire
... said 'suttinly.' So he tu'ned hisself into a 'Merican millionaire an' bought me an' him off 'n de manager, an' he had us sent here. All dat time we was nuffin' but mahble figgers, but soon's we arrived here, Joop'ter sent us up-stairs to de lab'ratory, an' fust ting me an' him knowed we ...
— Olympian Nights • John Kendrick Bangs
... own first idea was of a door slamming. Then, about five minutes later, we heard Anton, in the upstairs hall, pounding on a door, and shouting: 'Lane! Lane! Are you all right?' We ran up the front stairway, and found Anton, in his rubber lab-apron, and Fred, in a bathrobe, and barefooted, standing outside the gunroom door. The door was locked, and that in itself was unusual; there's a Yale lock on it, but nobody ...
— Murder in the Gunroom • Henry Beam Piper
... an idea about Grimmy. Didn't Lancaster give him a leg-up for his chemistry the other day? Permission to footle in the lab. on half-holidays, and all the rest of it? Grim was no ...
— Acton's Feud - A Public School Story • Frederick Swainson


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