darb

plural darbs

1. slangSomething beautiful, a charm, a peach.

   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!

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   Ain't it a darb?

   1915, He Resolves Not to Smoke

   “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

   ‘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

   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. AustraliaslangA cigarette.

   Synonyms: death stick, durrie