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Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of drab.
Etymologies
- Alteration of obsolete French drap, cloth, from Old French; see drape.Possibly of Celtic origin; akin to Scottish Gaelic dràbag and Irish Gaelic drabóg, slattern, or from Dutch drab, dregs.Probably alteration of drib.
Examples
“Reading a lot of material in a short time in order to catch up, rather than in drips and drabs as it is produced, allows cross blog and media discussions to be more easily followed as a thought thread.”
Political Beliefs and Self-Deception, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“The 47-year-old Mr. Croak says the product sold in dribs and drabs at first.”
“Bush had kept this claimed power obscured, letting it out in dribs and drabs of directed leaks, and hints and winks in public statements; but Obama has taken us beyond that, to the open declaration and institutional entrenchment of the principle of death without due process for citizens.”
“One trader described recent hedge-fund activity in Greek bonds as coming in "dribs and drabs.”
“We are just now seeing on dribs and drabs of info about the Chilean wine industry because the first problem and immediate focus is on resuce and survival.”
Chilean earthquake: wineries, barrels, bottles damaged or demolished | Dr Vino's wine blog
“Because vast amounts of information have to be translated, sifting the seized materials will take a long time and threat information will likely come out in dribs and drabs, counterterrorism officials said, predicting it would take weeks just to do a preliminary assessment of the material.”
The Wall Street Journal: Al Qaeda Sought to Target U.S. Train Network
“None of these details cohere into a character; they're merely bits and drabs of information.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Giltz: Theater: Under The Radar and Coil Warm Up January
“Now when we have pizza and salad at home I always end up putting the leftover dribs and drabs of the salad and dressing on the remains of the pizza and crust ... so good!”
“Created things receive no more than dribs and drabs of it.”
The Huffington Post: William C. Chittick, Ph.D.: The Innate Beauty Of Human Nature
“We'd started by reading it to him in drips and drabs before bed, but he finally got frustrated with how slowly that was happening that he picked the book up and re-started at the beginning and read straight through to the end in two days.”
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slumry Usually found with dribs. She had dribs and drabs of this and that. Jul 3, 2007