1) In younger teenage crowds, usually schools, tab is synonymous with pop tab. These are collected, used as jewelry, or exchanged for kisses/sexual favors (depends on the individuals involved). If you want to give a tab to someone without the implicit stigma, the tab is dropped to be retrieved by the individual recieving it.
2) A canned beverage produced by the same company that makes Coca Cola; the origonal Diet Coke. Tab was popular in the 80's, but has faded to obscurity.
3) A key on the keyboard of a computer that can, depending on the program; indent paragraphs evenly, move the curser from one interactive object on a website to the next, and switch browser windows. Also an ASCII character made by pressing the button of the same name to indent a text. Short for Tabulation.
4) British slang for a cigarette.
5) Slang for various forms of illegal drugs, predominantly ecstacy and marijuana. Short for tablet.
6) Abbreviation of tabulature. Used to read and write music for guitars and bass.
7) Slang used to refer to Cambridge University students by those of Oxford University. Short for "Universitas Cantabrium"
8) British Military abbreviation of "Tactical Advance to Battle", referring to a march or hike.
9) A bill in a restaurant. Short for Tabulation.
10) A projection, flap, or short strip attached to an object to facilitate opening, assembly, handling, or identification.
1) "Here, Tommy. Want a tab?" Tommy: *kiss*
2) "Hey, I saw some Tab over at the store. They had three cans left."
3) To make a series of numbered questions line up vertically, just put a tab before each question until they aline.
4) "Hey, Buddy, you got a light for my tab?"
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Tight-Ass Bitch: reference to any female perceived to be uptight, snobby, narcissistic, or generally enamored of their own unjustified self-worth.
That Paris is such a TAB, she thinks she's so hot.
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A person playing a videogame or any sort of game online while at the same time drinking loads of RedBull and eating fastfood. It could also be used as a verb: "to tab". You could either be a tab or tab by yourself or with others, even though it is not a very social event.
Person 1: Evan is not going out tonight, he'd rather sit alone at home playing Halo and drink Red Bull.
Person 2: Ah, seriously? What a tab!
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The keyboard button that allows one to cycle through all buttons on the computer without using the mouse.
I used the 'tab' key to move from the 'definition and background' section to the 'example' of the word I am currently defining; I didn't even have to move my hand(s) off of the keyboard to touch the mouse!
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Short for LorTAB. Hydrocodone/Acetamenaphine.
"I was needing a refill on my 240 tabs even though I filled them two days ago because someone stole all of them." -- Totally not an Addict
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a tab is how music for guitars is written and read such as


e--0---------|
b--0--1------|
g--1-----1---|
d--2---------|
a--2---------|
E--0---------|

by the way to you other pickers that isnt a song.
ive been working on that stairway to heaven for a friggin month
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term for loritabs (pills)
Damn, i just snorted two tabs. They were 10's too !!
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