Definitions for drubs

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Spelling: [druhb]
IPA: /drʌb/

Drubs is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in drubs (bdrsu).

Definitions for drubs

noun

  1. a blow with a stick or the like.

verb (used with object)

  1. to beat with a stick or the like; cudgel; flog; thrash.
  2. to defeat decisively, as in a game or contest.
  3. to drive as if by flogging:
  4. to stamp (the feet).

Origin of drubs

1625-35; perhaps by uncertain mediation Arabic ḍarb blow, beating

Examples for drubs

Laura began to drub on the drawing-room window and nod and laugh from it.

And as for the men, what could they think, when the preacher could drub any six of them?

At rehearsal he used frequently to drub his former mistress.

He has to drub along all day, day in and day out, sternly, and be President of all of us.

A hundred years ago it was the critic's pleasure to drub authors with cruel and unnecessary vigour.

Did ever any Tradesmen succeed, who attempted to drub Customers into his Shop?

I'll break his bird-traps and smash his nets, and I'll get my big cousin, the blacksmith, to drub him to a jelly.

drub says that the actors left out "a considerable load of Obscenity and Prophaness."

Jack, life is a great schoolmaster, but why does it take so long to drub any sense into these blockheads of ours?

Also, to beat or drub a person, a sense known to Shakspeare as well as to seamen.

Word Value for drubs
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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