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tab
noun- a tablet, usually one taken as a recreational drug; a single dose of LSD UK, 1961
Originally medical and pharmaceutical jargon, added to the vocabulary of drug users in the 1950s. - I see Harry and get my tabs from him–thirty “French” Blues at sixpence a time. — Ian Hebditch, Weekend, [The Sharper Word], p. 133, 1969
- He’s got some acid. We can have two tabs [...] for 1, man. That’s good, they’re usually a pound each, but he knows me. — Robin Page, Down Among the Dossers, p. 27, 1973
- This was Pet Sounds on twenty tabs of acid. — Barney Hoskyn, Waiting For The Man, p. 127, 1996
- He’d once been arrested holding a quarter sheet of acid: maybe seventy-five tabs. — Nicholas Blincoe, Ardwick Green (Disco Biscuits), p. 8, 1996
- Chewing the remaining half of the tab I take to the dance floor. After the first rush I’m waiting for the acid to reach the E and lift it higher. — Melanie McGrath, Hard, Soft & Wet, p. 90, 1998
- Can I interest one in a tab of acid, madam? — Wayne Anthony, Spanish Highs, p. 84, 1999
- The tabs and the Bible notch big numbers still. — James Ellroy, Destination Morgue, p. 179, 2004
- a tabloid newspaper US
- A tabloid and a full-sized job were there. The tab was opened to a news account of the trial that was one column wide and two inches long. — Mickey Spillane, One Lonely Night, p. 16, 1951
- I wouldn’t have called it an orgy myself, but that’s what the tabs labeled it. — Dev Collans with Stewart Sterling, I was a House Detective, p. 52, 1954
- a bill, especially in a restaurant or bar US, 1946
- Then just before the check comes, they get mad and walk out. Leave you with a forty-two dollar tab. — Elmore Leonard, City Primeval, p. 27, 1980
- a cigarette UK, 1934
Originally northern dialect, spread with media usage. - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 112, 1996
- a walk or march across country UK
- That night he [a member of the Parachute Regiment during the Falkland Islands campaign] set out on a “tab” for Goose Green. — Listener, 8 July 1982
- an enterprise, an activity US
- “Hey, look, baby,”I said. “I know you’re Capone’s old lady–uh, uh, I ain’t coming on this tab.” — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 24, 1946
▶ run a tab
to order drinks without paying for each one, paying instead the entire bill at the end of the session US- One-fifteen Harry ordered another drink and told the waiter to run a tab. — Elmore Leonard, Riding the Rap, p. 43, 1995
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