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▪ I. prefab, a. and n. colloq.|ˈpriːfæb|
Also pre-fab.
[Abbrev. of prefabricated ppl. a.]
A. adj. Prefabricated. Also transf. and fig.
1937New Yorker 27 Mar. 20 (caption) Darling, the Prefab Homes man was just here. 1944Archit. Rec. Dec. 69/1 (heading) Expansible prefab house for postwar. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Nov. 667/2 Wolsey's ‘pre-fab.’ chapel on the Field of the Cloth of Gold. 1962J. Philips Dead Ending (1963) ii. iii. 77 That pre-fab bow tie. 1965New Scientist 5 Aug. 326/2 Industrialized building is..a collection of developments. Some commentators make a division between ‘light’ and ‘heavy’, applying the former term to the progeny of the post-war ‘prefab’ systems, and the latter to such aids as pre-cast concrete sections of a ton or so each. 1966T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 ii. 26 Barbed wire again gave way to the familiar parade of more beige, prefab, cinderblock office machine distributors, bottled gas works, [etc.]. 1973C. Bonington Next Horizon xvii. 236 Neat rows of prefab huts, the homes of the Eskimos. 1977Rolling Stone 24 Mar. 58/2 The temptation to follow through with prefab notions of what that audience would like..was apparently too strong to resist.
B. n. A prefabricated house or building; in Britain spec. a light, often single-storey house of the kind built in large numbers during and after the 1939–45 war when it was necessary to rehouse many people in a short time. Also attrib.
1942Time 16 Mar. 77/3 This year 20% of all new houses may be prefabs. 1947‘N. Shute’ Chequer Board ix. 250 Any young couple might live in a prefab when they start off first. 1949G. Cotterell Randle in Springtime 112 She continued with complaints about the people living in the new pre-fabs that had been put up where a V1 had demolished some houses in the road. 1958Spectator 24 Jan. 109/2 The Crystal Palace, the first prefab in the world. 1958U. Bloom Abiding City xii. 200 England..was rising from the ashes of the bombing, with the influx of pre-fabs springing up everywhere. 1959Times 24 Sept. 15/2 Active youth clubs to keep the pre-fab element out of trouble. 1972Daily Tel. 7 Dec. 16/2 The last 700 prefabs in London are to be demolished.
▪ II. prefab, v. trans.|ˈpriːfæb|
Colloq. abbrev. of prefabricate v. Hence pre-fabbed ppl. a.
1959Observer 4 Oct. 21/6 Prefabbed to retail on both sides of the Atlantic, the Anglo-American telefilm serial is a celluloid bastard. 1959Encounter Oct. 37/2 Pre-fabbed hand-crafts and papier-maché charm. 1973‘J. Marks’ Mick Jagger (1974) 67 You're still growing up in a blues environment whether you've prefabbed it or whether it's natural. |