tabber

A device for applying an adhesive tab.

Noun

  1. A device for applying an adhesive tab.
    • Mail tabbers are an economical and timesaving alternative for mass mailings, such as newsletters and brochures. Instead of inserting the pages inside an envelope, which then needs to be sealed, a tabber places a small...
  2. One who wears a tab of a specified kind.
    • Under this system, outstanding freshmen cadets (green tabbers) are picked during the first semester, and "marked" with green shoulder tabs and green plastic lapel discs. - 1963, Army, volume 14, page 37:
    • But the sensitivity of the issue still lingered. To this day ex-servicemen still identify themselves as "Red Tabbers" or "Red Tab", […] - 1978, Papers in International Studies: Africa series, page 35:
  3. A user who switches between tabs.
    • OmniWeb has a reputation for fast browsing, but if you're a card-carrying member of TA (Tabbers Anonymous), you need the 5.0 beta version to get that feature. - 2004, Sarah Milstein, Rael Dornfest, Google: The Missing...

Origin

From tab + -er.

Forms

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