lab

¹ American  

[lab] / læb /

noun

1. laboratory.

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Lab ² American  

[lab] / læb /

noun

1. Informal. Labrador retriever.

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LAB ³ American  

Or lab

abbreviation

Slang.

1. life’s a bitch (used to acknowledge, often dismissively, a difficult or unfair circumstance).

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lab. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. labor.

2. laboratory.

3. laborer.

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Lab. ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. Laborite.

2. Labrador.

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Lab. ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. politics Labour

2. Labrador

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lab ² British  

/ læb /

noun

1. short for laboratory

2. short for Labrador retriever

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lab. ³ British  

abbreviation

1. laboratory

2. labour

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Etymology

Origin of lab¹

By shortening

Origin of Lab²

By shortening

Origin of LAB³

From its use in digital communications

Example Sentences

Wang, a research professor at Washington University in St. Louis and a fellow of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, has recreated Martian conditions in the lab to study these effects.

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026

I could select which categories of information to share with the AI bots, such as medications, and lab results.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

In the UK, in 2023, more than 50,000 patients had IVF cycles - where eggs are fertilised in a lab and the embryo is then placed in the woman's uterus.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

There have been worse years, Schwartz noted, including during a severe drought in 2015, when the sparse snow disappeared around the lab even earlier.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

She isn’t looking at me the way Havana did in the computer lab.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

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