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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

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

It's vain to comfort me, Willie, Sair grief maun ha'e its will; But let me rest upon your briest To sab and greet my fill.

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Bliss Carman

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