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fab
very good, excellent; used for registering general approval or agreement US
A shortening of FABULOUSThunderbirds (1964–66) used “F. A. B.” as an acknowledgement but otherwise meaningless catchphrase; the 1999 UK re-run coincided with a vogue revival.- And the great Kahoona. He’s absolutely fab. — Frederick Kohner, Gidget, p. 59, 1957
- PAUL: We do, you know. We sound like us having a ball. It’s fab. GIRL: Is it really fab or are you just saying that to convince yourself? — A Hard Day’s Night, 1964
- — Carol Covington, A Glossary of Teenage Terms, 1965
- [P]op has the fab habit of suddenly changing its clothes, drugs and music every now and then. — John Robb, The Nineties, p. 148, 1999
- [T]his fab fivesome [the pop group Steps]. — CD:UK, p. 14, 2000
- As I sat there, getting all this fab coverage from Dolan, I began to regret having laid out the fifty on the cracker-discrimination case. — Terry Southern, Now Dig This, p. 145, 2001
- Email is fast and convenient and generally fab[.] — Claire Mansfield and John Mendelssohn, Dominatrix, p. 280, 2002
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