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Cabbaging

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cab⋅bage

2  [kab-ij] noun, verb, -baged, -bag⋅ing.
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–noun
1. Chiefly British.
a. cloth scraps that remain after a garment has been cut from a fabric and that by custom the tailor may claim.
b. Also called cab. such scraps used for reprocessing.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
2. to steal; pilfer: He cabbaged whole yards of cloth.
Origin:
1615–25; earlier carbage shred, piece of cloth, appar. var. of garbage wheat straw chopped small (obs. sense)
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cabbage

  1. n.
    money. (Originally underworld. See also green; spinach.) : How much cabbage you want for this heater?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

cabbage 
c.1440, from M.Fr. caboche "head" (in the Channel Islands, "cabbage"), from O.Fr. caboce "head," from L. caput "head" (see head). Introduced to Canada 1541 by Jacques Cartier on his third voyage. First written record of it in U.S. is 1669. The decline of "ch" to "j" in the unaccented final syllable parallels the common pronunciation of spinach, sandwich, Greenwich, etc.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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