STAB or stab or stabs may refer to:

  • Stabbing, penetration or contact with a sharp object

Places

  • Stab, Kentucky, US
  • St. Anne's-Belfield School, a college preparatory school in Charlottesville, Virginia, US

People and characters

  • Staff captain (stab captain)
  • Stabs-captain () of Russia
  • Stabs-kapitan () of Prussia

Persons

  • Johann Stab, Johannes Stabius (1450–1522), Austrian cartographer
  • Seven Stabs, member of the band The Redneck Manifesto

Fictional characters

  • Mr. Stabs, a fictional character from Ace of Wands

Arts, entertainment, media

  • Stab (b-boy move), a breakdance technique
  • Stab (music), an element in musical composition
  • "Stab", a song by Built to Spill from There's Nothing Wrong with Love
  • Stab, the film-within-a-film from the Scream franchise

Transportation, vehicular

  • Stab jacket or buoyancy compensator, a piece of diving equipment
  • Stab (Luftwaffe designation), during World War II, a German designation for command aircraft or headquarters units
  • Stabilizer (aircraft)
  • Strike Assault Boat

Other uses

  • Sodium triacetoxyborohydride, a reducing agent used in organic synthesis
  • Symbol table, a data structure used by a language translator
  • stabs (STABS), a debugging data format
  • Operation Stab, a July 1942 WWII British military operation against the Japanese

See also

  • Stabb (surname)