fab
fab Lexical Profile
fab Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Extraordinarily good, impressive, or wonderful; fabulous (used informally).
"She looked absolutely fab in her vintage velvet jacket at the gallery opening."
• noun
A specialized manufacturing plant where microchips and semiconductor devices are fabricated.
"The technology company invested billions of dollars to build a new semiconductor fab in Arizona."
The process of manufacturing or constructing industrial components or semiconductor wafers; fabrication.
"The custom steel brackets are currently in fab and should be ready for installation next week."
• verb
To manufacture, construct, or assemble (especially metal components or semiconductor wafers); to fabricate.
"The machinist offered to fab a custom mounting bracket for the engine over the weekend."
• Rhymes for fab
Word Origin & Etymology
As an adjective, shortened from 'fabulous' in the 1960s and popularized by British pop culture; as a noun and verb, shortened from 'fabrication' and 'fabricate' in industrial and semiconductor engineering.