Meaning of rehab | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Rehabilitation, especially to treat the use of recreational drugs.
   countable, informal, uncountable
2. An institution for rehabilitation.
   countable, informal, uncountable
3. A brief period of time spent away from the fire by a firefighter at a fire scene, for purposes of recuperation.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“go into rehab”

“The assimilationists would have you believe that there is no lesbian or gay underclass, white or of color. That the junkies, crackheads and rummies in the drunk-tanks and welfare rehabs are all straight. Our addicts all have ample checkbooks, the best insurance their professions can buy, and membership in the right upscale cliques.”

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