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    Sab.
    abbreviation
    Sabbath.
  • sab
    sab
    noun
    a person engaged in direct action to prevent a targeted activity, esp fox hunting, taking place

Sab.

American  

abbreviation

  1. Sabbath.


sab British  
/ sæb /

noun

  1. informal a person engaged in direct action to prevent a targeted activity, esp fox hunting, taking place

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of sab

C20: shortened from saboteur


Example Sentences

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Sab. 23d.—It seems to me that this truth alone, there is a God, is sufficient, rightly believed, to make every human being absolutely and perfectly happy.

From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George L. Prentiss

She said the incident had not put her off being a sab and declared she was "not going anywhere".

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2023

In one scene, she says: “Yeh sab mujhe pasand hai, bhaut pasand hai.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2011

Kilmarnock lang may grunt an' grane, An' sigh, an' sab, an' greet her lane, An' cleed her bairns, man, wife, an' wean, In mourning weed; To Death she's dearly pay'd the kane— Tam Samson's dead!

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Quarterly or and gules an escarbuncle of eight rays floratty sab.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 105, November 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

The song he was upon was Li Chastel d' Amors, which runs— Las portas son de parlar Al eissir e al entrar: Qui gen non sab razonar, Defors li ven a estar.

From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Henry Hewlett

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