subs. (American).—1. A check; an account. TO KEEP TAB = to keep watch.
1889. Y. E. ALLISON, The Longworth Mystery, in The Century Magazine, xxxviii. Oct., 882. There are fellows in the office quietly keeping TAB on them.
2. (tailors’).—In pl. = the ears.
TO DRIVE TAB, verb. phr. (old).—‘To go out on a party of pleasure with a wife and family’ (GROSE).
THE TAB, subs. phr. (London).—The Metropolitan Tabernacle in Newington Causeway.
