tab
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- noun
- /tæb/
- And just put everything on my tab.
- pick up the tab
- run up a tab
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- You know, she, you know, ran up a huge tab at dinner and mostly on alcohol.
- You know, we, we, we do someone a favor or we pick up the tab or whatever.
- And at some point, you know, God or the devil or whoever says, OK, you got to pay the tab now.
- And just as in modern times, you'll have wage earners going to the bar and running up a tab until payday.
- And if I wasn't there, that club at that tab at the club was picked up.
- And so we took our own for it was like the total is final tab Mexican version.
Examples
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Not to mention his hotel tab, which has gotten completely out of hand.
Fiction book (1995) -
Put it on my tab.
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Just put their tab on my bill.
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Put it on my tab, will you?
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I went back to the bar to sign the tab for lunch.
Fiction book (1992) -
You know, she, you know, ran up a huge tab at dinner and mostly on alcohol.
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Who picks up the tab when things go wrong?
Academic text (2003) -
Everyone who can afford it picks up the tab for everyone who cannot.
Blog text (5) -
We'll put it on my tab at Harry's.
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We settled the bill after dinner by paying our tab at the bar.
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A key on a keyboard that moves the cursor to the right to indent or align text
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Etymology
Tab for a bill comes from keeping a short written list of what a customer ordered, so a tab is the running 'list' of charges you pay at the end.