Drabble Definition
(intransitive) To fish with a long line and rod.
A fictional story, typically in fanfiction, that is exactly 100 words long.
A fictional story, typically in fanfiction, only a few hundred words long.
Other Word Forms of Drabble
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Origin of Drabble
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From a word game in Monty Python's Big Red Book in which the first player to write a novel wins; the UK Science Fiction fandom agreed that 100 words will suffice; not, as is sometimes stated, from the surname of the author Margaret Drabble
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Middle English drabelen
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English drabelan
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