Usually means: Made dull, colorless, or lifeless.
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  1. drabbed: Merriam-Webster
  2. drabbed: Collins English Dictionary
  3. drabbed: Vocabulary.com
  4. drabbed: Wordnik
  5. drabbed: Wiktionary
  6. Drabbed, drabbed: Dictionary.com
  7. Drabbed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Drabbed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. drabbed: FreeDictionary.org
  10. drabbed: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. drabbed: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (drab)

noun:  A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour.
noun:  The color of this fabric.
noun:  Often in the plural form drabs: apparel, especially trousers, made from this fabric.
noun:  (by extension) A dull or uninteresting appearance or situation, unremarkable.
adjective:  Of the color of some types of drabcloth: dull brownish yellow or dun.
adjective:  (by extension) Particularly of color: dull, uninteresting.
noun:  (dated) A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.
noun:  (dated) A promiscuous woman, a slut; a prostitute.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To consort with prostitutes; to whore.
noun:  A small amount, especially of money.
noun:  A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
noun:  (chiefly transgender slang) An instance of a transgender or non-binary person presenting as the gender corresponding to their sex assigned at birth instead of that corresponding to their internal gender identity (for instance, a trans woman dressed as a man).
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