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ab¹

  • /æb/

Sounds like abb, Ab · Rhymes with -æb

noun abs

  1. abbreviation, clipping, informal Clipping of abdominal muscle The bikinied models in most of the ESPN2 shows have abs. Many of the malnourished bikinied models in the commercials have visible rib cages. How did the two get conflated into a shared vision of beauty?

ab²

  • /æb/

Sounds like abb, Ab · Rhymes with -æb

Where it comes from

Abbreviation of abscess.

noun abs

  1. slang An abscess caused by injecting an illegal drug, usually heroin.

ab³

  • /æb/

Sounds like abb, Ab · Rhymes with -æb

Where it comes from

Abbreviations.

verb abs · abbing · abbed

  1. informal To abseil. I had a climbing rope in my pack, set up an abseil with it, and abbed down to him.
  2. abbreviation Abbreviation of abort

noun

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of abortion

preposition

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of about

adverb

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of about

ab⁴

  • /æb/

Sounds like abb, Ab · Rhymes with -æb

Where it comes from

From the spelling books and the fact that it was the first of the letter combinations.

noun abs

  1. US The early stages of; the beginning process; the start.

AB⁵

  • /ˌeɪˈbiː/

Rhymes with -eɪbi

proper noun

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of Alberta: a province of Canada.
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Artium baccalaureus
  3. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Aryan Brotherhood, a US white supremacist, neo-Nazi prison gang and crime syndicate.

    Similar: 12

  4. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Anheuser-Busch Shares of AB InBev (BUD) soared nearly 6% after the Budweiser, Bud Light and Stella Artois owner reported solid sales and earnings.

noun ABs

  1. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of able seaman or able-bodied seaman In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires— A.B. means an able-bodied seaman […]
  2. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of afterburner
  3. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of aid to the blind
  4. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of airbase
  5. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of alkylbenzene
  6. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of antibody
  7. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of artificial breeding
  8. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of assembly bill AB-89 would have required that participation in sex-segregated California school programs, athletic teams, and facility use be based on a pupil’s sex, not gender identity.
  9. countable, uncountable A blood type of the ABO system that has both blood antigens and may receive all blood types, and donate to AB.
  10. countable A person with this blood type.
  11. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of adult baby Well, he appears to be an AB. You know, an adult baby. It's a fetish in which the baby is taken care of in every way by a mommy or a daddy.
  12. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of asymmetric bars
  13. Australia, countable A halal snack pack consisting of doner meat topped with chips, tomato sauce, chilli sauce, barbecue sauce, and garlic sauce.
  14. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of attentional blink

adjective

  1. abbreviation, initialism, not comparable Initialism of airborne
  2. abbreviation, initialism, not comparable Initialism of antiballistic
  3. abbreviation, initialism, not comparable Initialism of at bat

Ab⁶

Where it comes from

The first letter of each of the two syllables of antibody.

noun Abs

  1. symbol Symbol for antibody

    Similar: Ig, immunoglobulin · Opposite: Ag, antigen

Ab⁷

  • /ɑb/ US

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Hebrew אָב (āv).

proper noun Abs

  1. Judaism Av. The Book of Lamentations is chanted in the synagogue on the ninth of Ab.

Ab⁸

  • /æb/ US

Sounds like ab, abb · Rhymes with -æb

Where it comes from

Short form of Abner.

proper noun

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Abner, from Hebrew, occasionally used as a formal given name.

Ab⁹

  • /æb/ US

Sounds like ab, abb · Rhymes with -æb

Where it comes from

From the nineteenth-century Lepsius transcription, ȧb, of Egyptian jb (“heart, mind, intention”), ib:Z1.

noun Abs · ib

  1. dated In Egyptian belief, the heart and will and conscience of a person, especially that of the recently deceased which proceeds to the afterlife and is weighed as evidence during his or her judgement.
  2. dated An Ancient Egyptian amulet in the shape of a heart (ib).

Ab10

Where it comes from

Abbreviation.

noun

  1. abbreviation, uncountable Abbreviation of Abbot

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: av, ba, artium baccalaurens, group ab, type ab, crystallin, bisect, grund, abdomen, abdominal, abdominals, six-pack, core, midsection, midriff, belly

Translations

Every language

noun abdominal muscle

한국어아브 abeu
日本語腹筋 fukkin
中文腹肌 fùjī
Françaisabdo
DeutschBauchmuskeln
Русскийпресс press
Tiếng Việtmúi, múi cơ, cơ bụng

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@misc{ab_2026,
  title = {ab},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ab},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}