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TO DRUB

Definition: DRUB

DRUB

Verb

1. Beat thoroughly in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: TO DRUB

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Slang in 1811

TO DRUB. To beat any one with a stick, or rope's end: perhaps a contraction of DRY RUB. It is also used to signify a good beating with any instrument. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: TO DRUB

English words defined with "TO DRUB": ScutchWhala. (references)

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Misspellings: TO DRUB

Misspellings

"TO DRUB" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: to dubb. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: TO DRUB

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-o-r-t-u"

-1 letter: doubt, turbo.

-2 letters: bort, bout, brut, burd, dour, drub, duro, rout, tour, trod, turd.

-3 letters: bod, bot, bro, bud, bur, but, dor, dot, dub, duo, orb, ort, oud, our, out, rob, rod, rot, rub, rut, tod, tor, tub, udo, urb, urd.

-4 letters: bo, do, od, or, to, ut.

 Words containing the letters "b-d-o-r-t-u"
 

+1 letter: doubter, obtrude, outbred, redoubt.

 

+2 letters: abductor, doubters, obdurate, obtruded, obtruder, obtrudes, outboard, outbreed, redoubts, taboured, troubled, tuberoid.

 

+3 letters: abductors, byproduct, downburst, obtruders, obtruding, obturated, outbarked, outboards, outbraved, outbreeds, outbribed, outburned, sodbuster, subeditor, tamboured.

 

+4 letters: abductores, byproducts, cloudburst, counterbid, downbursts, earthbound, northbound, obdurately, objurgated, obstructed, outbragged, outbrawled, outrebound, rebuttoned, roundabout, roundtable, sodbusters, stormbound, subcordate, subeditors, subproduct, subrogated, troubadour, untroubled.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO DRUB


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      44 52 55 42

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01000100 01010010 01010101 01000010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#68 &#82 &#85 &#66

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0044 0052 0055 0042

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5449238525536

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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