rehab

plural rehabs

1. informaluncountableRehabilitation, especially to treat the use of recreational drugs.

   go into rehab

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   They tried to make me go to rehab, but I said, "No, no, no"

   2006, Amy Winehouse, Mark Ronson, “Rehab”, in Back to Black, performed by Amy Winehouse

2. countableinformalAn institution for rehabilitation.

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   The assimilationists would have you believe that there is no lesbian or gay underclass, white or of color. That the junkies, crackheads and rummies in the drunk-tanks and welfare rehabs are all straight. Our addicts all have ample checkbooks, the best insurance their professions can buy, and membership in the right upscale cliques.

   1990 February 4, Leonard Tirado, “Privatized 'Recovery' Versus Collective Action”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 5

3. countableuncountablefirefightingA brief period of time spent away from the fire by a firefighter at a fire scene, for purposes of recuperation.

present singular third person rehabs · participle present rehabbing · participle past rehabbed · past rehabbed

1. informaltransitiveTo rehabilitate.