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drab

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Noun

  1. A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour.
  2. The color of this fabric.
  3. Often in the plural form drabs: apparel, especially trousers, made from this fabric.
  4. A dull or uninteresting appearance or situation, unremarkable.
  5. A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.
  6. A promiscuous woman, a slut; a prostitute.
  7. A small amount, especially of money.
  8. A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
  9. An instance of a transgender or non-binary person presenting as the gender corresponding to their sex assigned at birth instead of that corresponding to their internal gender identity (most commonly a trans woman dressed as a man).
  10. Poison.

Adjective

  1. Of the color of some types of drabcloth: dull brownish yellow or dun.
  2. Particularly of color: dull, uninteresting.

Verb

  1. To consort with prostitutes; to whore.
  2. To poison.

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