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DRUB
Definition of DRUB
noun
Carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
DRUB carries 4 further meanings.
intransitive verb
To thrash with a stick.
intransitive verb
To instill forcefully.
“drubbed the lesson into my head.”
intransitive verb
To defeat soundly.
intransitive verb
To berate harshly.
Where it comes from
From Middle English *drob, drof, from Old English *drōb, drōf (“turbid; dreggy; dirty”), from Proto-West Germanic *drōbī, from Proto-Germanic *drōbuz (“turbid”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,696)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DRUB · 5 relatives in the game
DRUB in a sentence
“Charlie is going to drub you and crazy Rubio in November. isaiah's grandma”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DRUB in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 42 boards so far. 91 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.
Built from these letters
DRUB starts with D and ends with B. Sorted, its letters read BDRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of DRUB. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start DRUB
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found DRUB?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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