Crossword clues for drub
drub
- Wipe the floor with duster at first, then buff
- Beat repeatedly
- Diamonds, something difficult to beat
- Beat but good
- Defeat handily
- Soundly defeat
- Defeat badly
- Wipe the floor with
- Beat the tar out of
- Wipe the floor with, so to speak
- Thoroughly defeat
- Defeat easily
- Beat hollow
- Outscore by a wide margin
- Give a beating
- Beat bad
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drub \Drub\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drubbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Drubbing.] [Cf. Prov. E. drab to beat, Icel. & Sw. drabba to hit, beat, Dan. dr[ae]be to slay, and perh. OE. drepen to strike, kill, AS. drepan to strike, G. & D. freffen to hit, touch, Icel. drepa to strike, kill.] To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel.
Soundly Drubbed with a good honest cudgel.
--L'Estrange.
Drub \Drub\, n.
A blow with a cudgel; a thump.
--Addison.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s (in an Oriental travel narrative), probably from Arabic darb "a beating," from daraba "he beat up" (see discussion in OED). Related: Drubbed; Drubbing.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 to beat (someone or something) with a stick 2 to forcefully teach something 3 to defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush 4 to criticize harshly; to excoriate
WordNet
Usage examples of "drub".
If I slacked then my share fell to Bessie, and if she got behind she received a worse drubbing from Mrs Gustard, the cook, than I did from Bob, so I tried not to let that happen.
The other three piled on Hoyt and would have probably given him a pretty good drubbing except that a couple of teachers happened along and broke up the melee.
Ashwin always imagines he can feel the drub of feet through the carbon steel skeleton of the tower.
Not the drubbing you gave those four hotshots, she thought, and smiled despite herself.
From up here it looks like you're drubbing those little dogies pretty decisively.
Long ones, short ones, fat ones, she was in a great cock heaven, surrounded by them--a prisoner of them--and all the time while the great black glistening pole fucked into her, expanding with each stroke like a giant balloon, the finger drubbed into her asshole like another cock--she was a prisoner, a helpless prisoner to the delicious rape of her cunt and asshole--trapped between them like a helpless insect.
Thoroughly drubbed by the boys, Akeela needed help finding his way back to his royal guardians.
Lavender, circled his legs, drubbed itself against Blink's chest, while its tapered tail, barred with silver, brushed her mouth.
It being observed to him, that a rage for every thing English prevailed much in France after Lord Chatham's glorious war, he said, he did not wonder at it, for that we had drubbed those fellows into a proper reverence for us, and that their national petulance required periodical chastisement.
He planted his blows just where he wished, to the intense delight of the boys, who yelled enthusiastically whenever he got in "a hot one," and their delight at seeing the Sergeant drubbed so thoroughly and artistically, worked an entire revolution in his favor.
It is widely believed that more attacks are already being planned they will be hastened if, as we anticipate, Wellesley drubs the French army on the Peninsula.
Time and again, just as I was dashing out for something, I would see the father giving Stanley a drubbing with the razor strop, a sight that made my blood boil.