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🧑‍🎤 A protester 🚫 A protest action 🛠️ To damage on purpose
sab

sab

9.9
An act of damaging equipment or stopping a hunt to protest
  • noun
  • Slang
translation icon : sabotaje
  • The group planned a sab against the local hunting club.

Examples

  • Many activists engage in sab to stop hunting in the area.

  • He joined his friends for a sab early on Saturday morning.

  • The group organized a sab to stop the illegal fox hunt.

  • After the sab, the activists quickly left the area to avoid arrest.

  • The activists organized a protest, and their tactics included sabbing the hunters' equipment.

  • Last weekend, a group of sabs targeted a hunting event to raise awareness about animal rights.

  • As a form of protest against hunting, they planned to sabotage the event by bringing in sabs.

Synonyms

sabotage
vssab
77 7.3

Damage done on purpose to things to stop them working

is an informal term used for protest acts against activities like hunting
troublemaking
vssab
3 4.5

Actions done on purpose that cause problems or mischief

involves deliberate, often damaging protest acts aimed at stopping specific activities

Antonyms

to support
∞ 1.0

Give help to a person or idea

How Damaging

arson
97 5.1
attack
∞ 1.4
sab
  • Slang
9.9
vandalism
57 4.1
disruption
126 4.1

Surface Forms

sab singular
sabs plural

Etymology

Sab is a short form of sabotage, and a helpful way to remember it is to think of a 'sabotage' as an action that stops work, like throwing a sabot, a 'wooden shoe', into a machine. So a sab can mean an act that 'damages' or blocks something to stop it.