Synonyms of drabs

drabs

noun

plural of drab

as in prostitutes

a woman who engages in sexual activities for money

in its time, this waterfront dive was decried as a den of iniquity, unfit even for the drunks and drabs who haunted it

Synonyms & Similar Words

• prostitutes
• hookers
• bawds
• streetwalkers
• tarts
• sex workers
• courtesans
• hustlers
• call girls
• cocottes
• women of the street
• madams
• madames
• tramps
• coquettes
• sirens
• hussies
• chippies
• flirts
• floozies
• libertines
• jades
• tempters
• temptresses
• minxes
• vamps
• wenches
• doxies

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of drabs

Hailing from the Cayman Islands, Cover learned to skate in two-week drips and drabs while visiting family in the Greater Toronto Area over the years. — Thomas Drance, New York Times, 6 June 2026

The Kennedy assassination still features many unknowns, and information is still being released about it in drips and drabs—previewing, perhaps, the future of disclosure around the Epstein case. — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025