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Nabs vs Wabs - What's the difference?

nabs | wabs |

As a verb nabs

is (nab).

As a noun wabs is

(uk|slang) breasts.

nabs

English

Verb

(head)
  • (nab)

    • Anagrams

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    nab

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (nabb)
  • To seize, arrest or take into custody a criminal or fugitive
  • To grab or snatch something
    • Synonyms
    * (To arrest a criminal or fugitive) nick, bust
    Derived terms
    * nabber * kidnap

    Etymology 2

    Compare knap, knop, knob.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The summit of an eminence.
    • (Halliwell)
  • The cock of a gunlock.
    • (Knight)
  • (locksmithing) The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot.
    • (Knight)

    Anagrams

    * * Appalachian English English transitive verbs ----

    wabs

    English

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • (UK, slang) Breasts.
  • *1999 , John Patterson, The Guardian , 17 Dec 1999:
  • *:a DVD of the noxious, abominably brilliant 1983 teen sex-comedy Screwballs. That's right, the one about a foxy cheerleader named Purity Bush and the six nerds who'll move heaven and earth to catch an eyeful of her tanktop-straining wabs .
  • *2011 , (Caitlin Moran), How to be a Woman :
  • *:But what of your wabs ? After all, it's not like it's any easier to think of something to call your breasts. They sit on your ribcage, from the age of 13 onwards, and yet there's scarcely a word you can refer to them with that isn't going to make either you, or someone else, uncomfortable.