drab
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour.
- The color of this fabric.
- Often in the plural form drabs: apparel, especially trousers, made from this fabric.
- A dull or uninteresting appearance or situation, unremarkable.
- A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.
- A promiscuous woman, a slut; a prostitute.
- A small amount, especially of money.
- A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
- 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).
- Poison.
Adjective
- Of the color of some types of drabcloth: dull brownish yellow or dun.
- Particularly of color: dull, uninteresting.
Verb
- To consort with prostitutes; to whore.
- To poison.
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