slablike

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adjective

Resembling a slab.

OriginProto-Germanic *līką ← Proto-Indo-European *leyg- ← English slab →
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Meanings

adjectiveslablike (comparative more slablike, superlative most slablike)

comparative more slablike · superlative most slablike

  1. Resembling a slab.

    several dozen huge yellow chunky slablike somethings, huge as office blocks, silent as birds.

    1979, Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, →ISBN, page 30

Origin

  1. Englishslab
  2. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  3. Proto-Germanic*līką
  4. Englishslablike

From slab + -like.

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APA

slablike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slablike

MLA

“slablike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slablike. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “slablike,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slablike.

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