cabbage

1. 1.

   make off with belongings of others

   Synonymspilferpurloinpinchabstractsnarfswipehooksneakfilchnobblelift

   Broadersteal

Other forms of cabbage

plural

cabbages·

past tense

cabbaged·

present participle

cabbaging·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cabbage

What does cabbage mean?

cabbage means "any of various types of cabbage". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cabbage?

cabbage has 2 syllables: cab-bage. The stress falls on "cab". In IPA it is /ˈkæbədʒ/.

What is another word for cabbage?

Close synonyms include chou, boodle, bread, clams, dinero. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cabbage a common word?

cabbage is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.