cabbage

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.

   “In aphrodisiac preparation, wild cabbage was frequently an ingredient.”

2. (broadly, countable, uncountable)An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
3. (uncountable)The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.

   “Cabbage is good for you.”

4. (countable, offensive)A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.

   “After the car crash, he became a cabbage.”

5. (countable, uncountable)Used as a term of endearment.

   “If you deceive me, Yasha, I don't know if my nerves could stand it. YASHA (kissing her) My little cabbage! Of course, a girl must know her place.”

6. (slang, uncountable)Money.
7. (slang, uncountable)Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.
8. (countable, uncountable)A terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.
9. (countable, uncountable)A cabbage palmetto (Sabal palmetto), a palm of the southeastern US coasts and nearby islands.
10. (countable, slang, uncountable)A human head.

    “American made choppas / You beefin', we split ya cabbage”

11. (slang, uncountable)Scraps of cloth which are left after a garment has been cut out, which tailors traditionally kept.

verb

1. (intransitive)To form a head like that of the cabbage.

   “to make lettuce cabbage”

2. (intransitive, slang)To do nothing; to idle; veg out.

   “How effective the project was is a moot point, because there were never any studies carried out to see whether children benefited from cabbaging in front of the TV rather than interacting with a teacher.”

3. (slang)To be killed or murdered, such as by being shot in the head.
4. (transitive)To embezzle or purloin; to pilfer, to steal.

   “[Y]our Butler purloins your Liquor, and your Brevver ſells your Hogvvaſh; […] your Taylor, inſtead of Shreds, cabages vvhole Yards of Cloth; […]”

   “We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.”