Cabbage

  • 21cabbage — n. money. (Originally underworld. See also green; spinach.) □ How much cabbage you want for this heater? □ I don’t make enough cabbage to go on a trip like that! …

    Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • 22cabbage — [14] The shape of a cabbage, reminiscent of someone’s head, led to its being named in Old French caboce, which meant literally ‘head’. English acquired the word via the Old Northern French variant caboche (whose modern French descendant caboche,… …

    Word origins

  • 23cabbage — I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English caboche, from Middle French dialect (Norman & Picard), literally, head, noggin Date: 15th century 1. a. any of several brassicas (Brassica oleracea) of European origin; especially a leafy …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 24cabbage —    to steal    Cabbages were odd snippets or spare lengths of cloth which were traditionally the perquisite of tailors, who sometimes consigned good material into that category. The term than passed into, and has stayed in, general use, mainly of …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 25cabbage —  v. Save. Steal. Retrieve. Make good. Get back.    ♣ We ll take this short cut and cabbage a little time …

    A concise dictionary of English slang

  • 26cabbage — Trucker slang for a long steep incline in Eastern Oregon as in I jammed the brakes pullin off of Cabbage …

    Dictionary of automotive terms

  • 27Cabbage Patch Kids — Type Dolls Inventor Debbie Morehead and Xavier Roberts[1] …

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  • 28Cabbage aphis — Cabbage Cab bage (k[a^]b b[asl]j), n. [OE. cabage, fr. F. cabus headed (of cabbages), chou cabus headed cabbage, cabbage head; cf. It. capuccio a little head, cappuccio cowl, hood, cabbage, fr. capo head, L. caput, or fr. It. cappa cape. See… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 29Cabbage beetle — Cabbage Cab bage (k[a^]b b[asl]j), n. [OE. cabage, fr. F. cabus headed (of cabbages), chou cabus headed cabbage, cabbage head; cf. It. capuccio a little head, cappuccio cowl, hood, cabbage, fr. capo head, L. caput, or fr. It. cappa cape. See… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 30Cabbage fly — Cabbage Cab bage (k[a^]b b[asl]j), n. [OE. cabage, fr. F. cabus headed (of cabbages), chou cabus headed cabbage, cabbage head; cf. It. capuccio a little head, cappuccio cowl, hood, cabbage, fr. capo head, L. caput, or fr. It. cappa cape. See… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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