Obliques Eg Crossword Clue

We think the answer is "ABS" which means:

noun
• • Any of a class of composite plastics used to make car bodies and cases for computers and other appliances
verb
• • To abseil.
• • (now rare outside medicine) to miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
• • To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
• • To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
• • To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
• • To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile.
• • To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
• • To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
• • To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.
• • To terminate a process prior to completion.
adjective
• • Derived; extracted.
• • Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
• • Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
• • Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
• • Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
• • Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
• • Absent-minded.
• • Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.
• • Insufficiently factual.
• • Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
• • (grammar) as a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
• • Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.

An example sentence would be:

• • "He had well-defined abs from years of intense workouts."
• • "She wore a crop top, showing off her toned abs."

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