drabble

Meanings

Verb

• To wet or dirty, especially by dragging through mud.
• To fish with a long line and rod.

Noun

• A short fictional story, typically in fan fiction, sometimes exactly 100 words long.

Related

Similar words

• flash fiction, flashfic, microfiction, short short story, spamfic, sudden fiction

Origin

• From Middle English drabelan
• 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.