slabber

present singular third person slabbers · participle present slabbering · participle past slabbered · past slabbered · alternative slobber · alternative slubber

1. intransitiveTo let saliva or other liquid fall from the mouth carelessly; drivel; slaver.
2. transitiveTo eat hastily or in a slovenly manner, as liquid food.
3. transitiveTo wet and befoul by liquids falling carelessly from the mouth; slaver; slobber.

   At the ſame time he clap'd me on the Back, and ſlabber'd me all over from Cheek to Cheek, vvith his great Tongue.

   1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “Of Some Quarrels that Happen’d after Peg was Taken into the Family”, in John Bull Still in His Senses: Being the Third Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], →OCLC, page 23

4. transitiveTo cover, as with a liquid spill; soil; befoul.

   The milk pan and cream pot so slabbered and tost / That butter is wanting and cheese is half lost.

   1878, Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […], →OCLC; republished as W[illiam] Payne, Sidney J[ohn Hervon] Herrtage, editors, Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […], 1878, →OCLC

plural slabbers · alternative slobber · alternative slubber

1. countableuncountableMoisture falling from the mouth; slaver.

plural slabbers

1. A saw for cutting slabs from logs.

   log slabber

2. A slabbing machine.
3. Someone who makes slabs.

plural Slabbers

1. USinformalAn inhabitant of Slab City, a snowbird campsite in the Colorado Desert in southeastern California.