prefab

Alternative forms

• pre-fab

Etymology

A clipping.

Adjective

prefab (not comparable)

1. Prefabricated.

Noun

prefab (plural prefabs)

1. A prefabricated building.
   • 2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “HS2 is just 'passing through'”, in RAIL, number 953, page 41:

     Having donned our PPE, we walk through the site to the prefab that controls access to the tunnel.

2. A prefabricated section of a building.
3. (British) A single-storey prefabricated home built in many British cities immediately after World War II, intended to have a short life, but in a few cases still in use.
4. (programming) A reusable object in a video game world.

Verb

prefab (third-person singular simple present prefabs, present participle prefabbing, simple past and past participle prefabbed)

1. (transitive) To prefabricate.

See also

• self-build
• spec home