cabbage
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cabbage (countable and uncountable; plural cabbages)
- An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
- (uncountable) The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.
- Cabbage is good for you.
- (offensive) A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.
- After the car crash, he became a cabbage.
- Used as a term of endearment.
- 2009, Tom Stoppard, Helen Rappaport, The Cherry Orchard, translation of Вишнëвый сад ("Vishniovy sad") by Anton Chekhov, published 1904, page 31:
- If you deceive me, Yasha, I don't know if my nerves could stand it. YASHA (kissing her) My little cabbage! Of course, a girl must know her place.
- 2009, Tom Stoppard, Helen Rappaport, The Cherry Orchard, translation of Вишнëвый сад ("Vishniovy sad") by Anton Chekhov, published 1904, page 31:
- (uncountable, slang) Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments.
- (uncountable, slang) Money
- (uncountable, slang) Marijuana leaf, the part you don't smoke but have to first extract into cannabutter and bake into spacecake to get high off.
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- (plant) cabbage plant, cole
- (leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable): cole, greens
- (person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage): vegetable
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leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable
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person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage
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to cabbage (third-person singular simple present cabbages, present participle cabbaging, simple past and past participle cabbaged)
- (intransitive) To form a head like that the cabbage; as, to make lettuce cabbage.
- (intransitive) To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer.
