skylab

sky +‎ lab

skylab (plural skylabs)

1. An outer space laboratory.
   • 1972, Israel Journal of Technology - Volume 10, page 188:

     Two possibilities come to mind: (1) the use of multi-body spacecraft systems, e.g. space stations or shuttle skylabs employing subsatellites and/or passive balloons. (2) the use of cluster system of several small satellites of different size, geometry and surface material.

   • 1973, Aerospace Medicine - Volume 44, Issues 5-8, page 624:

     Two aspects of altered immunity must be dealt with before man can exist for extended periods in space capsules, skylabs, or sealabs.

   • 1973, Institute of Bankers (Great Britain), Journal of the Institute of Bankers - Volumes 94-95, page 252:

     What are the scientists up to, apart from perfecting impenetrable food packaging and orbiting skylabs?

   • 1981, William J. Bausch, The Christian Parish: Whispers of the Risen Christ, page 51:

     With the growing possibility of a global nuclear accident, untold genetic defects, falling skylabs, and the unleasing of powers science cannot control people are once more “off center.”

   • 1986, Daily Report: China - Issues 108-116:

     When asked whether China will launch its own skylabs and space shuttles, Shen Rongjun said: "The ultimate purpose of aerospace technology is to send people into space. […] "

• Skylab

From Cebuano skylab, from English Skylab, from its crude resemblance in shape to the space station.

skylab (plural skylabs)

1. (Philippines) A motorcycle taxi with extension seats on the sides, configured by placing a wooden beam across the pillion.
   • 2003, Karl Aanonsen, Sunggud is Our Business, page 55:

     At the very beginning of my time in Lake Sebu the jeepneys coming from the lowland would go until Lëm-Delag. Later on, the barangay officials decided that only skylabs were allowed to carry passengers to Lëm-Delag.

   • 2005, Philip Cornwel-Smith, John Goss, Very Thai: Everyday Popular Culture, page 46:

     Parked by its ancestor the ox cart, skylabs are the only public transit in this Sakhon Nakhon village.

   • 2006, Robin Hemley, Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday, page 124:

     In the town of Mongkayo skylabs are designed to hold as many as a dozen passengers.

Named after the Skylab, although the vehicle's shape is more reminiscent to a satellite (cf. habalhabal, which is claimed to be named after the Hubble Space Telescope as well as a reduplication of habal). Alternatively, by folk etymology, from a contraction of sakay (“hop on”), lab (“love”).

skylab

1. (chiefly Mindanao) motorcycle taxi

   Synonym: habalhabal

For quotations using this term, see Citations:skylab.

• English: skylab