tabber

English edit

tab +‎ -er

tabber (plural tabbers)

A device for applying an adhesive tab.
- 2013, Entrepreneur magazine, Grant-Writing Business: Step-by-Step Startup Guide:
  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 adhesive tab (or wafer seal) on folded sheets of paper to securely hold them shut.
(in combination) One who wears a tab of a specified kind.
- 1963, Army, volume 14, page 37:
  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.
- 1978, Papers in International Studies: Africa series, page 35:
  But the sensitivity of the issue still lingered. To this day ex-servicemen still identify themselves as "Red Tabbers" or "Red Tab", […]
(computing) A user who switches between tabs.
- 2004, Sarah Milstein, Rael Dornfest, Google: The Missing Manual, page 172:
  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.

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