sensationalist journalism
"The editor refused to run the story, fearing that publishing it would turn our respected paper into a tab filled with celebrity scandals and crime stories."
a short strip of material attached to or projecting from something in order to facilitate opening or identifying or handling it
"pull the tab to open the can"
"files with a red tab will be stored separately"
"the collar has a tab with a button hole"
"the filing cards were organized by cards having indexed tabs"
A small flap or strip of material attached to something, for holding, manipulation, identification, opening etc.
"The old Cambridge tradition has it that a student who lives on campus is called a tab while someone living off-site is known as an out."
A restaurant bill.
A cigarette.
A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments.
A student of Cambridge University.
A tabloid newspaper.
A tablet, especially one containing illicit drugs.
A tableau curtain.
A key on a computer keyboard that typically inserts a tab or moves the input focus.
Alternative letter-case form of tab (“student at Cambridge”)
In plain English: A tab is a small piece of paper that you can fold up and stick into a book to mark your place.
"Please pay the tab for dinner tonight."
To affix with tabs; to label.
"I pressed tab several times to jump past the label and type my answer directly into the next field."
To use the Tab key on a computer to advance the cursor or move the input focus, or on a typewriter to advance the carriage.
In plain English: To tab something means to write down its details so you can find it later.
"Please tab your name on the attendance sheet."
Usage: Use this verb when physically attaching paper or plastic dividers to binders, rather than using it as slang for browsing the internet. It is often confused with "tag," which means to attach a small piece of information without necessarily securing multiple pages together.
The word tab first appeared in English around 1607, but its exact origins remain unknown to linguists. It likely entered the language as a shortened form of another term rather than evolving from an existing native root.