Both Uses
laboratory
in
Goodbye Stranger
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- What would you say if I told you I just kissed Patrick in the hall behind the science lab?†
p. 124.9lab = a workplace where people do scientific or medical research, or produce drugs or chemicals (also used figuratively) OR (as an adjective) related to such a place
- But she didn't want to meet him behind the science lab.†
p. 173.8 *
Definitions:
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(laboratory) a workplace where people do scientific or medical research, or produce drugs or chemicals
or (as an adjective): related to such a place -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, lab can be used as an abbreviated way of saying Labrador retriever. It is also a rare last name and may indicate someone's initials.