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nounverbattested in dialogue

Navigation. Often used attributively, as in nav beacon.

noun

  1. 1

    Navigation. Often used attributively, as in nav beacon.

    Standing and moving to under one of the lights by the nav station I could see a dark blue-red mark across the right side of my rib cage. Prodding gently I realised I had just cracked or broken one or more ribs.

Etymology

Clipping of navigation or navigate.

verb

  1. 1

    informalto navigate

Forms

past tense
navved
past participle
navved
present participle
navving
third person singular
navs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).