noun A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
verb To lop; to prune.
verb To plant a shrub in a yard, garden, etc.; to prune a bush or other plant into a shrub.
noun A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur.
verb To make or drink a shrub (liquor drink).
verb To mispronounce (a word or words) in another language in a manner that is influenced by one's mother tongue.
noun A word mispronounced by replacing some consonant sounds with others of a similar place of articulation as influenced by one's mother tongue.