Definition of "drabs" [drabs]

• Plural form of drab. (noun)

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• "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."
• "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."