tabber

English

Etymology

From tab +‎ -er.

Noun

tabber (plural tabbers)

1. A device for applying an adhesive tab.
   • 2013, Entrepreneur magazine, Grant-Writing Business: Step-by-Step Startup Guide:

     Mail tabbers are an economical and timesaving alternative for mass mailings, such as newsletters and brochures. Instead of inserting the pages inside an envelope, which then needs to be sealed, a tabber places a small adhesive tab (or wafer seal) on folded sheets of paper to securely hold them shut.

2. (in combination) One who wears a tab of a specified kind.
   • 1963, Army, volume 14, page 37:

     Under this system, outstanding freshmen cadets (green tabbers) are picked during the first semester, and "marked" with green shoulder tabs and green plastic lapel discs.

   • 1978, Papers in International Studies: Africa series, page 35:

     But the sensitivity of the issue still lingered. To this day ex-servicemen still identify themselves as "Red Tabbers" or "Red Tab", […]

3. (computing) A user who switches between tabs.
   • 2004, Sarah Milstein, Rael Dornfest, Google: The Missing Manual, page 172:

     OmniWeb has a reputation for fast browsing, but if you're a card-carrying member of TA (Tabbers Anonymous), you need the 5.0 beta version to get that feature.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

tabber m

1. indefinite plural of tabbe