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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Examples of "drab" in Sentences
- The one makes the park look drab.
- The friarbirds generally have drab plumage.
- Also, the colors are so drab and depressing.
- The frame is offered in black or olive drab.
- The blue on white is way too drab and bland.
- Drab, whitewashed on the bottom right in the waves.
- It just looks sort of drab and awful from the outside.
- The body is greatly elongate and coloration is generally drab.
- Its plumage is a drab brown with purple iridescence on the back.
- Most of the graphics in the game were dull, gray, brown and drab.