Tab, n.3 University slang.
(tæb)
[Short for Cantab.]
A member of the University of Cambridge.
| 1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister Street II. iii. iii. 555 He will get his blue next term and show the Tabs that he's a jolly good fellow. 1930 A. Alington Slowbags & Arethusa i. 4 Then the morning's play is discussed, the loathly Tabs reviled—for the Slows are Oxford to a man. |