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rehab, n. slang.|ˈriːhæb|
[abbrev. rehabilitation.]
1. = rehabilitation 2 d. Also attrib. Austral., N.Z., and Canad.
1948K. Stronach in A. E. Woodhouse N.Z. Farm & Station Verse (1950) 182 (title) Rehab. 1949L. Peterson Chipmunk 33 The car was completely theirs though; he'd paid cash for it out of his rehab money. 1953M. Scott Breakfast at Six i. 12 This block's a Soldiers' Settlement. You know the sort of thing. Under Rehab. Ibid. vi. 53 It was the Rehab officer in charge of this settlement and others. 1959G. C. Slatter Gun in my Hand (1960) xi. 141 Rehab was the caper you jokers. 1964Canad. Weekly 28 Nov. 12/3 By then I had a wife and child and my army rehab allowance was $90 a month. 1965N.Z. News 27 Apr. 9/2 Rehabilitation assistance to returned war servicemen and women, a service known and respected throughout New Zealand as ‘Rehab’, officially ended on March 31. 1966G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. viii. 172 A house may be bought with a rehab loan or a State advances loan.
2. = rehabilitation 2 c. Also attrib. U.S.
1961Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1246/2 Rehab, a rehabilitation ward or department in a hospital: since ca. 1945. 1970New York 16 Nov. 45/2 The storefront drug-rehab center. 1976Amer. Speech 1973 XLVIII. 208 Afterward, alcoholics go to rehab ‘the rehabilitation center’ to readjust to a life free from the use of alcohol. 1977Chicago Tribune 2 Oct. xii. 68/8 (Advt.), Rehab Nurse. Immediate position available in skilled nursing facility for Rehab Nursing Supervisor. 1978Tucson Mag. Dec. 42/3 Hauling young people off to ‘re-hab’ centers against their will may just be illegal.
3. = rehabilitation 2 a. U.S.
1975R. H. Rimmer Premar Experiments (1976) i. 125 If I can persuade him to sell for ten thousand dollars each, I'll toss this house in at ten thousand dollars. That will give us fifteen thousand dollars more for rehab. 1978New York 3 Apr. 36/3 On the one hand, the re-habilitation provided work. Thomas was in touch with Peter Brennan, the building-trades leader, who was quite cooperative. The instructors in the re-hab program were often union members and the young trainees were doing jobs created only because of the program.
Hence as v. trans.; also reˈhabber.
1977Archit. Rec. Mar. 13/3 We can and should shorten time for developers and rehabbers. 1977Sat. Rev. 23 July 9/2 The rehabilitation, into 28 apartments and several common rooms, of an abandoned tenement at 1186 Washington Avenue{ddd}‘rehab-ing’ additional tenements in the vicinity of 1186. 1978Harper's Mag. June 43 Solid 1890s structures built practically with slave labor, now rehabbed to perfection. 1979Arizona Daily Star 1 Apr. j1/3 Rehabbing an older city home involves some special problems. |