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Cabbage patch #1 (permalink) Sat Jan 14, 2006 5:02 am   Cabbage patch
 

A cabbage patch is a zone where you can grow cabbages. But what means "to cabbage patch", as in "they'll cabbage patch you upside the head"?
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Cabbage #2 (permalink) Sat Jan 14, 2006 8:19 am   Cabbage
 

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It seems to mean hit, but I'll need more context. The online Urban Dictionary has several odd definitions for the phrase, none of which seems applicable here.
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Cabbage patch #3 (permalink) Sat Jan 14, 2006 20:14 pm   Cabbage patch
 

super wrote:
A cabbage patch is a zone where you can grow cabbages. But what means "to cabbage patch", as in "they'll cabbage patch you upside the head"?


In that quotation it means "hit", as the moderator said, but it is such unusual usage, even in slang, that I would not use it, if I were you. In fact, it's the first time I've ever heard it used that way.

I most commonly use the expression "cabbage patch" to mean "the poor side of town" or "the wrong side of the tracks". However, when some very tiny children ask how they came to exist, their parents tell them, "We picked you out of a cabbage patch," or something similar.
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