drab
IPA: drˈæb
noun
- A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour.
- The colour of this fabric.
- Often in the plural form drabs: apparel, especially trousers, made from this fabric.
- (by extension) A dull or uninteresting appearance or situation, unremarkable.
- (dated) A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.
- (dated) 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.
- (LGBT, slang) 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 (for instance, a trans woman dressed as a man).
verb
- (intransitive, obsolete) To consort with prostitutes; to whore.
adjective
- Of the colour of some types of drabcloth: dull brownish yellow or dun.
- (by extension) Particularly of colour: dull, uninteresting.
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