drabbing

Verb (1)

drab (third-person singular simple present drabs, present participle drabbing, simple past and past participle drabbed)

1. (also, attributive, intransitive, obsolete) To consort with prostitutes; to whore.
   • You may ſay, you ſaw him at ſuch a time, marke you mee, / At game, or drincking, ſwearing, or drabbing, / You may go ſo farre.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell...

Verb (2)

drab (third-person singular simple present drabs, present participle drabbing, simple past and past participle drabbed)

1. (also, attributive, obsolete, slang) To poison.
   • "What do you mean by drows, Chaldea?"
     "Poison, no less. You look drabbed, for sure."
     "Drabbed?"
     "Poisoned. But I waste the kalo jib on you, my Gorgious. God bless you for a sick one, say I, and that's a bad dukkerin, the which in gentle Romany means fortune, my Gentile swell."1911, Fergus Hume, Red Money

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