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• Sab.
  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.

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sab British  

/ sæb /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of sab

C20: shortened from _saboteur

Example Sentences

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Sab. sab

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

"The dancers, were painted some party per pale, gul and sab, some party per fesse of the same colours;" whence Gibbon concluded "that heraldry was ingrafted naturally into the sense of the humane race".

From Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 by Andrew Lang

She just gi'ed a sab and was by wi' it.

From Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson

My mither sent me to the town, To warp a plaiden wab; But the weary, weary warpin o’t Has gart me sigh and sab.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns