Usually means: Beat thoroughly in a competition.
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  1. drub: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. drub: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. drub: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  8. drub: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. drub: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  12. drub: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Drub: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Drub: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. drub: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. drub: Rhymezone
  17. Drub: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. drub: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. drub: Free Dictionary
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  21. drub: Dictionary/thesaurus

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Definitions from Wiktionary (drub)

noun:  (dialectal, Northern England) Carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal.
verb:  To beat (someone or something) with a stick.
verb:  To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush.
verb:  To forcefully teach something.
verb:  To criticize harshly; to excoriate.

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