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Cab
- Short for cabriolet, a light, horse-drawn carriage which replaced the heavier hackney carriage in the 19th century as the vehicle for hire of choice in Paris and London, and were the forerunners of modern taxicabs.
- Short for taxicab, which replaced cabriolets at the beginning of the 20th century. Their name came from taxi(meter) + cab(riolet).
- Short for cabin, the driver/operator's compartment in a truck (lorry), crane or railway locomotive. In England the tractor part of an articulated lorry is often called a "cab" or "artic cab".
- Short for cab car.
- The moving passenger compartment in an elevator (lift).
- Short for cabochon, a gemstone cut with a flat bottom and a rounded top.
- Short for cabernet sauvignon, a variety of red wine.
- Cab Calloway School of the Arts
- 2006 song by Train (band)
- Short for cabinet, especially amongst musicians when referring to loudspeaker cabinets.
- C.A.B. was a 1980s British children's television show
- cabinet (file format)
- Canadian Association of Broadcasters
- Choose and Book
- In the UK, the Citizens Advice Bureau
- Civil Aeronautics Board
- The US Army Combat Action Badge
- Microsoft's Composite UI Application Block, a framework to build modular Windows applications.
- Controller Anti-lock Brake, see Anti-lock Braking System
- In Ireland, the Criminal Assets Bureau
- Argentina's Club Atlético Banfield
- In the British Army, CAB stands for Combat Assault Boot.
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