lab

See also: Lab, LAB, láb, lǟb, and Lab.

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lab (plural labs)

(colloquial) A laboratory.
- 1962, “Monster Mash”, Bobby "Boris" Pickett and Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers:
  I was working in the lab late one night
  When my eyes beheld an eerie sight
  For my monster, from his slab, began to rise
  And suddenly, to my surprise
  He did the Mash
  He did the Monster Mash.
- 2014, Jeff Jacobson, Growth, page 23:
  A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle.
(colloquial) Laboratory experiment, test, investigation or result.
I dropped my mixture while doing my lab, so I had to start over.

laboratory — see laboratory

lab (plural labs)

Labrador retriever

From lëpe, lëbozë. Historically the inhabitants of the Labëria (“the land of lab”) region. Compare Illyrian *Labeati.

Alternatively a back-formation based on Labëri (“Laberia”), borrowed from an unattested South Slavic *labanьja < *olbanьja, rendering the native pre-Albanian name of the country; Albania, Ἀλβανία (Albanía). However, this is doubtful.

lab m (labe, f.)

southern Albanian (male)
(male person from Labëri (“land of lab”), Labëria (“the land of lab”))

^ Wilkes, J. J. The Illyrians, 1992, →ISBN, page 172, "...area, including Oaneum on a river Aratus, which controlled the route leading west to the kingdom of Gentius among the Labeates around Vlora (Valona) here is in real the Labeates not in Shkodra,this part these pieces of land are called again today Labëria (Labeati)."
^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “lab”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, pages 208-9