Usually means: Applying dull, uninteresting color paint.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. drabbing: Merriam-Webster
  2. drabbing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. drabbing: Vocabulary.com
  4. drabbing: Wordnik
  5. drabbing: Wiktionary
  6. Drabbing, drabbing: Dictionary.com
  7. Drabbing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Drabbing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. drabbing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. drabbing: FreeDictionary.org
  11. drabbing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drabbing: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (drab)

noun:  A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour.
noun:  The color of this fabric.
noun:  Often in the plural form drabs: apparel, especially trousers, made from this fabric.
noun:  (by extension) A dull or uninteresting appearance or situation, unremarkable.
adjective:  Of the color of some types of drabcloth: dull brownish yellow or dun.
adjective:  (by extension) Particularly of color: dull, uninteresting.
noun:  (dated) A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.
noun:  (dated) A promiscuous woman, a slut; a prostitute.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To consort with prostitutes; to whore.
noun:  A small amount, especially of money.
noun:  A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
noun:  (chiefly transgender 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).
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