The phrase "a slab of five" is not a standard expression in written English and may be unclear without context.
It could potentially be used in contexts related to measurements, quantities, or informal descriptions, but its meaning is ambiguous.
Example: "He ordered a slab of five for the construction project, but I wasn't sure what that meant."
Alternatives: "a block of five" or "a piece of five".
The cinnamon bacon is $25.90 for four 14-ounce packages, sliced, or for a slab of four to five pounds.
"This is all custom-made," he said, pulling out a slab of shelf, one of many that are stacked to the ceiling with chocolate products both luxurious and fanciful.
At Old River Control on an ordinary day, when the stilling basin sounds like Victoria Falls but otherwise the country is calm and dry — when sandy spaces and stands of trees fill up the view between the structure and the Mississippi — an almost academic effort is required to visualize a slab of water six stories high, spread to the ends of perspective.
It began with a reverie of a mixed grill of fish — which is, at least as far as I am aware, not that common, a little bit of a few things rather than a huge slab of one — and progressed with a trip to the fish store with my daughter, whom I encouraged to do the selecting.
The desk surface is a slab of board on two filing cabinets, but when we first moved in 30 years ago, it consisted of two planks that had served as bench seats in a lecture hall in Carysfort College - oak whose grain had been polished by the soft shiftings of a century of student schoolmistresses.
From Chris Johanson comes a depiction on a slab of found wood of two figures walking, and from Jay Howell three pen-and-ink drawings from a series titled "Beasts of the Apocalypse" — a cat holding nunchucks, a figure with a goat's head flashing a peace sign, and a man-devil strumming a guitar.
The rock, an igneous cast called basaltic breccia, was gritty and strange with scoops and pockets, a slab of Swiss cheese eight stories high.
Anibal Martinez, 46, was out in a park -- really just a slab of asphalt between two buildings on Fifth Street between First and Second Avenues in Manhattan -- playing stickball.
A part of our strategy could be to say, 'Here is the person — a butcher, a chef, a cheese maker — you can contact and they will come to your house to help you.' " A slab of meat is one thing, the delightfully politically incorrect Une Histoire d'Homme auction is quite another.
