chub

IPA: tʃˈʌb

One of various species of freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae or carp family, especially:
A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus)
In Europe, its close relatives, notably the fallfish.
(by extension) Any of various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes.
In North America, a black bass.
(slang, countable) A chubby, plump person.
( slang, countable) An overweight man.
(uncountable) Excess body fat.
An erection (erect penis).
A plastic or other flexible package of meat, usually ground meat or luncheon meat.

Examples of "chub" in Sentences

"The chub is a soft fish, and tastes like boiled brown paper salted."
And there is in it a fish called chub, which they catch; but they do not eat it, for a certain sacred reason.
Black bass (locally called chub) and white perch are very abundant, and at the proper season rock and herring enter the Sound in considerable numbers.
The white fish -- a kind of chub -- was caught in the Yukon by the Yapik Eskimos and smoked at Acme Smoked Fish Corp, an old-fashioned, family-run business in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Davis guessed that the chub was some sort of groundhog - while a good guess, the chub is a fish that is now usually found further downstream in the Colorado River, although they once might have lived as far up as Glenwood Canyon.
And, now, he sometimes brought home a fish or two from the deeper water down in the pasture lot; and no success in after life would ever bring to the man the same thrill of delight that was felt by the boy when he landed a tiny "chub" or "shiner."
Among others, I was much pleased to find a cat-fish, taken in the lake by one of the island fishermen, and also a kind of chub, not found in Switzerland, and called by the fishermen here “Our Lady's Fish,” because it occurs only on the shore of an island where there is a convent, the nuns of which esteem it a great delicacy.