Usually means: Southern or relaxed speech pronunciation.
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  1. drawls: Merriam-Webster
  2. drawls: Collins English Dictionary
  3. drawls: Vocabulary.com
  4. drawls: Wordnik
  5. drawls: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. drawls: Wiktionary
  7. drawls: Dictionary.com
  8. drawls: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. drawls: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. drawls: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See drawl as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (drawl)

verb:  (transitive) To drag on slowly and heavily; to while or dawdle away time indolently.
verb:  (transitive) To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.
verb:  (intransitive) To move slowly and heavily; move in a dull, slow, lazy manner.
verb:  (intransitive) To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.
noun:  A way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together, characteristic of some Southern US accents, as well as Broad Australian, Broad New Zealand and Scots.
▸ Also see drawl


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