Cab

• Short for cabriolet, a light, horse-drawn carriage which replaced the heavier hackney carriage in the 19th century as the vehicle for hire of choice in Paris and London, and were the forerunners of modern taxicabs.
• Short for taxicab, which replaced cabriolets at the beginning of the 20th century. Their name came from taxi(meter) + cab(riolet).
• Short for cabin, the driver/operator's compartment in a truck (lorry), crane or railway locomotive. In England the tractor part of an articulated lorry is often called a "cab" or "artic cab".
• Short for cab car.
• The moving passenger compartment in an elevator (lift).
• Short for cabochon, a gemstone cut with a flat bottom and a rounded top.
• Short for cabernet sauvignon, a variety of red wine.
• Cab Calloway School of the Arts
• 2006 song by Train (band)
• Short for cabinet, especially amongst musicians when referring to loudspeaker cabinets.

The acronym CAB may stand for:

• C.A.B. was a 1980s British children's television show
• cabinet (file format)
• Canadian Association of Broadcasters
• Choose and Book
• In the UK, the Citizens Advice Bureau
• Civil Aeronautics Board
• The US Army Combat Action Badge
• Microsoft's Composite UI Application Block, a framework to build modular Windows applications.
• Controller Anti-lock Brake, see Anti-lock Braking System
• In Ireland, the Criminal Assets Bureau
• Argentina's Club Atlético Banfield
• In the British Army, CAB stands for Combat Assault Boot.

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