STAB or stab or stabs may refer to: *

Stabbing A stabbing is penetrating trauma, penetration or rough contact with a sharp or pointed object at close range. ''Stab'' connotes purposeful action, as by an Assassination, assassin or murderer, but it is also possible to accidentally stab oneself ...

, penetration or contact with a sharp object

Places

* Stab, Kentucky, US * St. Anne's-Belfield School, a college preparatory school in Charlottesville, Virginia, US

People and characters

* Staff captain (stab captain) ** Stabs-captain () of Russia ** Stabs-kapitan () of Prussia

Persons

* Johann Stab, Johannes Stabius (1450–1522), Austrian cartographer * Seven Stabs, member of the band ''The Redneck Manifesto''

Fictional characters

* Mr. Stabs, a fictional character from ''Ace of Wands''

Arts, entertainment, media

* Stab (b-boy move), a breakdance technique * Stab (music), an element in musical composition *"Stab", a song by Built to Spill from '' There's Nothing Wrong with Love'' *''Stab'', the film-within-a-film from the ''Scream'' franchise

Transportation, vehicular

* Stab jacket or buoyancy compensator, a piece of diving equipment * Stab (Luftwaffe designation), during World War II, a German designation for command aircraft or headquarters units * Stabilizer (aircraft) * Strike Assault Boat

Other uses

* Sodium triacetoxyborohydride, a reducing agent used in organic synthesis * Symbol table, a data structure used by a language translator * stabs (STABS), a debugging data format * Operation Stab, a July 1942 WWII British military operation against the Japanese