bab
Speech parts
1. bab - Noun
2. bab - Verb
Meaning
(UK, informal) Baby
(fishing, East Anglia) A bait for eels, consisting of a bundle of live worms.
bab (third-person singular simple present babs, present participle babbing, simple past and past participle babbed)
(intransitive, fishing, East Anglia) To fish for eels using a bab.
Synonyms
Examples
According to his biographers, Dark and Grey, Gilbert also drew on some of his earlier verse, the Bab Ballads for some plot elements.
Casualties Libyan Forewarned by a telephone call, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his family rushed out of their residence in the Bab al-Azizia compound moments before the bombs dropped.
Fayard, p. 62. parts of which survive today at Bab Zuwayla in the south and Bab al-Futuh and Bab al-Nasr in the north.
As for El Bab Bhar, it allowed access to some fondouks where Christian merchants lived in Tunis.
Bab Cartagena gave access to Carthage, important for bringing in construction materials needed for the city.
He pointed to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which connects the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean and is off the coast of Yemen, where the Tehran-allied Houthis control territory.