Entry · catalog no. 1037
slab
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noun · Houston, Texas ·
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A customized car in the Houston style — usually an older American sedan on chrome wire wheels with protruding "swanga" spokes, wrapped in candy paint, trunk rigged to pop. The name spells out its spirit: Slow, Loud, And Bangin'.
“He pulled up in a fresh slab, elbows out, trunk swinging to the beat.”
Origin & Attribution
Houston, Texas, from the early 1980s onward, built in the city's Black neighborhoods and bound tight to DJ Screw and the chopped-and-screwed sound made to be heard cruising slow and low.
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
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Nationwide / diaspora
Houston, Texas ·
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$SLABThe Record · cultural traction
▲ 26 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
60/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
Cultural energy indexed from documented usage, search interest, and citation frequency. The recorded date is the archive’s permanent point of record.
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Citations & Sources
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Slab (car) — cultural record
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+ Cite a sourceHoustonia Magazine, "An In-Depth Look at Slab Culture in Houston" — reportage · 2021
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