Past tense of 'drub'; having been beaten or defeated overwhelmingly.
Regular past tense of 'drub' formed by adding '-ed.' The base word 'drub' likely comes from Arabic 'daraba' or an imitative source from the 1600s.
In sports, getting 'drubbed' is humiliating because the word suggests not just losing but being physically beaten—the vocabulary we use for competitions mirrors actual combat!
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