Dictionary

darb en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (slang) Something beautiful, a charm, a peach.
   • Ain't it a darb? 1915, He Resolves Not to Smoke:
   • ‘My new bird is a darb,’ he says, ‘only four months old and he′s got a roll and a chop the size of your arm. Never heard a young bird sing like that.’ 1934, Story, volume 4, page 35:
   • 1941, Amazing Stories, Ziff-Davis, Volume 15, Issues 1-6, page 21, You can figure for yourself what a darb of a setup that was for us seven hundred professional killers!
   • “Boss,” he exclaimed, “it's a darb.” “It's more than that,” I cut in, “it′s a wonder. It′s a masterpiece.[…]” 1931, Courtney Ryley Cooper, Circus Day, page 263:
   • I looked at the snapshot of his sister for a long while, and I suddenly pitied the Hallmark people, and all the other sterile unfortunates who are manufacturing and consuming ready-made greeting cards, because, even among their choicest items, among their most expensive numbers, they had never been able to corner a Christmas angel that deserved to hold a candle to little Tessa Pavlic. She was a darb. "She's very beautiful," I said, handing him back his picture. 1958, Alexander King, chapter 21, in Mine Enemy Grows Older, New York: Simon and Schuster:
2. (Australia, slang) A cigarette.

Forms

Synonyms

durrie (cigarette) · death stick (cigarette)