Definition

1. Noun:

   • A leafy vegetable: A plant with a dense head of leaves, typically green or purple, eaten as a vegetable. It belongs to the species Brassica oleracea.
   • Informal term for money: Slang for paper currency or cash.

2. Verb:

   • To steal: To take something, especially money or goods, in a sneaky or dishonest way.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Vegetable):
  • We are having corned beef and cabbage for dinner.
  • The farmer grows several types of cabbage in his field.
• Noun (Money):
  • He spent all his cabbage on a new video game.
  • I need to earn some more cabbage before I can go on vacation.
• Verb (To steal):
  • The dishonest clerk was caught trying to cabbage money from the cash register.
  • He cabbaged a few pens from the office supply closet.

Advanced Usage

• "Cabbage head": A mildly insulting term for a foolish or stupid person, likening their head to a dense cabbage.
  • Don't be such a cabbage head; that's not how you do it.
• "Cabbage patch": An area of ground where cabbages are grown.
  • The children played hide-and-seek in the old cabbage patch.

Variants and Related Words

• Cabbagey (adj): Having the taste or smell of cabbage.
  • The soup had a slightly cabbagey flavor.
• Cabbageworm (n): The larva of certain moths that feeds on cabbage leaves.
  • The gardener is looking for cabbageworms on the plants.

Synonyms

• Noun (Vegetable): Cole, borecole.
• Noun (Money): Cash, dough, bread, moolah.
• Verb (To steal): Pilfer, filch, pinch, swipe.

Related Phrasal Verbs

(This word does not commonly form standard phrasal verbs. The verb "cabbage" is used transitively on its own.)

Related Idioms

• "Like a head of cabbage": Used to describe something very dense, compact, or unthinking.
  • His argument was as dense as a head of cabbage.
• "Not my cabbage": Informal expression meaning something is not to one's taste or interest.
  • Horror movies? No, thanks, that's not my cabbage.

Noun

1. any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers
2. informal terms for money
3. any of various types of cabbage

Verb

1. make off with belongings of others