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Fabs en · PROPN

Etymology

Abbreviation of Fab Four, + -s.

Meanings

1. (informal) the Beatles.
   • Still, Mick and the boys couldn't resist striving after whatever the Beatles attempted first, even when the Fabs flopped. 2002, Shawn Levy, Ready, steady, go!: the smashing rise and giddy fall of Swinging London:
   • Meronym: Fab
   • […] the madness which surrounded the Fabs at the height of Beatlemania. 1998, Patrick Humphries, The complete guide to the music of the Beatles, Volume 2:
   • At one time the Fabs told the press that: "Show business belongs to the Jews […] 1995, Henry W Sullivan, The Beatles with Lacan: rock 'n' roll as requiem for the modern age:

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