1. hit or beat (someone) repeatedly: "he was drubbed with tiresome regularity by his classmates"
▪ defeat thoroughly in a match or contest:"the Cleveland Indians drubbed Baltimore 9–0"
Word Originearly 17th century: probably from Arabic ḍaraba ‘to beat, bastinado’. The first recorded uses in English are by travellers in the Near East referring specifically to the punishment of bastinado.
