Definition of "cabbage"

cabbage¹

/ˈkæbɪd͡ʒ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural cabbages
1. An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
2. (uncountable) The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.
3. (countable, offensive) A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.
4. Used as a term of endearment.
  Quotations
  If you deceive me, Yasha, I don't know if my nerves could stand it. YASHA (kissing her) My little cabbage! Of course, a girl must know her place.
  2009, Tom Stoppard, Helen Rappaport, The Cherry Orchard, translation of Вишнëвый сад ("Vishniovy sad") by Anton Chekhov, published 1904, page 31
5. (uncountable, slang) Money.
6. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.
7. The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.
8. The cabbage palmetto (Sabal palmetto), a palm of the southeastern US coasts and nearby islands.
verb
third-person singular simple present cabbages, present participle cabbaging, simple past and past participle cabbaged
1. (intransitive) To form a head like that of the cabbage.
2. (intransitive, slang) To do nothing; to idle; veg out.
  Quotations
  How effective the project was is a moot point, because there were never any studies carried out to see whether children benefited from cabbaging in front of the TV rather than interacting with a teacher.
  2006, Steve Mckevitt, Why the World Is Full of Useless Things, page 38

cabbage²

/ˈkæbɪd͡ʒ/

noun
uncountable
1. (slang) Scraps of cloth which are left after a garment has been cut out, which tailors traditionally kept.
verb
third-person singular simple present cabbages, present participle cabbaging, simple past and past participle cabbaged
1. (transitive) To embezzle or purloin; to pilfer, to steal.
  Quotations
  [Y]our Butler purloins your Liquor, and your Brevver ſells your Hogvvaſh; […] your Taylor, inſtead of Shreds, cabages vvhole Yards of Cloth; […]
  1733, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], Alexander Pope, compiler, “Law is a Bottomless Pit. Or, The History of John Bull. […]. [The First Part.] Chapter X. Of John Bull’s Second Wife, and the Good Advice that She Gave Him.”, in Miscellanies, 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] Benjamin Motte, […], page 30
  We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.
  1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company