STAB or stab can mean:
- The act of stabbing with a sharp instrument
- Stab, a short form of stab jacket, another word for buoyancy compensator
- Stab, a short form of stabilizer of aircraft
- Stab vest, a type of armour designed to resist knife attacks
- Stab (music), a single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition
- STAB, an acronym for "Store to accumulator B", in some forms of assembly language
- STAB, an acronym for the St. Anne's-Belfield School, a college preparatory school located in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
- "Stab", a song by Built to Spill from their 1994 album There's Nothing Wrong with Love
- STAB, same type attack bonus, a statistical element in the Pokémon video games
- Stab is the German language word for "staff", in the sense of an administrative body, especially in military usage. Stab (Luftwaffe designation), during World War II was the German Luftwaffe (air force) designation for command aircraft or headquarters units
- STAB boat, a type of US Navy boat
- Johann Stab, another way of referring to the Austrian scientist Johannes Stabius
- British Army slang for a Territorial Army (United Kingdom) soldier (Stupid TA Bastard)
- Stab, the metafictional film-within-a-film from Scream 2, Scream 3 and Scream 4
- Symbol table, a data structure used by a language translator such as a compiler or interpreter
- Sodium triacetoxyborohydride, a reducing agent used in organic synthesis
Famous quotes containing the word stab:
“He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take
And stab my spirit broad awake;
Or, Lord, if too obdurate I,
Choose thou, before that spirit die,
A piercing pain, a killing sin,
And to my dead heart run them in!”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“Because of the unusual remoteness of Russia, and because of nostalgia’s remaining throughout one’s life an insane companion, with whose heartrending oddities one is accustomed to put up in public, I feel no embarrassment in confessing to the sentimental stab of attachment to my first book.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)