Join the fab team

[GoodTaste]

At the first glance of "Join the fab team", I guessed it meant "Join the excellent team" and indeed "fab" means fabulous/excellent in Cambridge Dictionary.

The question here is: Would American English speakers understand "the fab team" immediately as British English speakers? It seems to me that American speakers are not very familiar with such use. I am not sure.


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[PeterCW]

"Fab" is slang from my teenage years (the 1960s) and thus sounds very dated to me.

 

[Yankee]

Understood in the tweet you quoted. (AmE)

 

[emsr2d2]

"Fab" is slang from my teenage years (the 1960s) and thus sounds very dated to me.

I still use it a lot, along with "Cool!" I've even been known to use "Groovy!"

 

[Yankee]

I still use it a lot, along with "Cool!" I've even been known to use "Groovy!"

And after hearing your use of "groovy", those within earshot choked on whatever they were eating or drinking -- or nothing at all. :shock:

 

[Rover_KE]

I've only recently stopped exclaiming 'zounds!' and 'gadzooks!'

 

[GoesStation]

I've only recently stopped exclaiming 'zounds!' and 'gadzooks!'

'Sblood! I'm shocked.

 

[SoothingDave]

My first thought was you were involved in some kind of fabrication.

 

[Tdol]

I still use it a lot, along with "Cool!" I've even been known to use "Groovy!"

Groovy is the nazz.

 

[Tdol]

'Sblood! I'm shocked.

Shiver me timbers, egad.