A prefab is a house built with parts which have been made in a factory and then quickly put together at the place where the house was built.
[mainly British]
...some ugly Sixties prefabs.
2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
A prefab building or structure is one that has been made from parts which were made in a factory and then quicklyput together at the place where the structure was built .
...a city of 50,000 with prefab concrete high-rise buildings.
prefab in British English
(ˈpriːˌfæb)
noun
a.
a building that is prefabricated, esp a small house
b.
(as modifier)
a prefab house
prefab in American English
(ˈpriˌfæb)
noun
Informal
a prefabricated building
Examples of 'prefab' in a sentence
prefab
I want to get you out of that prefab, but it would be even more cramped if you moved into the flat above the shop.
Melville, Anne THE HARDIE INHERITANCE (2002)
When the first soldiers reached the prefab hut they'd lose precious seconds while they tried to work out which direction we'd taken.