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Definition of Drubbed
1. drub [v] - See also: drub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drubbed
Literary usage of Drubbed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts: ... Preserved in by Virginia, William Pitt Palmer, Sherwin McRae, Raleigh Edward Colston, Henry W. Flournoy (1881)
"... the Brig fairly drubbed May 3d them both & Chased us almost into Hampton Roads,
we proceeded afterwards to Portsmouth—Then up the Bay again us far as ..."
2. Fosteriana, Consisting of Thoughts, Reflections, and Criticisms, of John Foster by John Foster, Henry George Bohn (1858)
"MONSIEUR LE VAILLANT drubbed BY A LADY. Arrived within the colony of the Cape,
they stopped at the house, or " place," of Mrs. ..."
3. Dust and Foam: Or, Three Oceans and Two Continents by Thomas Robinson Warren (1859)
"... drubbed by an American Consul—Bull-fights—Patron Saint—Departure from Lima-Sail
up the ... drubbed ..."
4. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"/J. Though the bread be not mine, yet, if it had been less than weight, I should
have been drubbed. By setting an unfortunate mark on their follower«, ..."
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