tab 2 
(tăb)
(tăb)n.
1. Informal
a. A bill or check, such as one for a meal in a restaurant.
b. Cost; price: The tab for upgrading the computers would be high.
2. A tabulator on a typewriter.
3. Computers
a. A key on a computer keyboard that, when pressed, inserts a special ASCII character used for formatting text, as in indenting a line or block of text.
b. This special ASCII character.
intr.v. tabbed, tab·bing, tabs
Idiom: To press the tab on a typewriter or computer keyboard: Tab over to the next column.
keep tabs on Informal
To observe carefully over time: Let's keep tabs on expenditures.
[Short for TABLET or TABULATION. Sense 2, short for TABULATOR.]
- pullin one's horns
- pull leg
- pullman
- Pullman
- Pullman
- pull off
- pull-on
- pull (oneself) together
- pull oneself together
- pull (one's) punches
- pull one's punches
- pull (one's) weight
- pull one's weight
- pullorum disease
- pull out
- pullout
- pull out all the stops
- pull over
- pullover
- pull punches
- pull rank
- pull round
- pull someone's chain
- pull (someone's) leg
- pull someone's leg