cub
IPA: kˈʌb
Root Word: Cub
noun
- A member of the Cub Scouts.
- (baseball) A player on the team the "Chicago Cubs".
- A young fox.
- (by extension) The young of certain other animals, including the bear, wolf, lion and tiger.
- (humorous or derogatory) A child, especially an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy.
- (slang) A young man who seeks relationships with older women, or "cougars".
- (obsolete) A stall for cattle.
- Synonym of cub reporter
- (furry fandom) A furry character who is a child.
- Acronym of cashed up bogan. [(Australia) A person who is unsophisticated or of a lower class background but achieving a high salary, who spends money on flashy or trashy items to fulfil their aspirations of higher social status. The stereotype includes having speech and mannerisms that are considered to denote poor education and uncultured upbringing, which is reflected in their bad taste possessions and lifestyles.]
- Initialism of cashed up bogan. [(Australia) A person who is unsophisticated or of a lower class background but achieving a high salary, who spends money on flashy or trashy items to fulfil their aspirations of higher social status. The stereotype includes having speech and mannerisms that are considered to denote poor education and uncultured upbringing, which is reflected in their bad taste possessions and lifestyles.]
verb
- To give birth to cubs.
- To hunt fox cubs.
- (obsolete) To shut up or confine.
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Examples of "cub" in Sentences
- The school mascot is the tiger cub.
- Females partake in feeding the cubs.
- The hunters found cubs in the forest.
- The cubs come to the rescue and bandage him.
- Sows will emit crooning sounds to their cubs.
- He is more fitted to babysitting the wolf cubs.
- The CT110 is the final model of the Trail Cub line.
- ` ` I'm what we call a cub reporter, '' laughed Carr.
- The characters Hedgehog and Bear Cub are convivial and tame.
- But the Cubs' attendance was mired at the bottom of the league.
- BLITZER: It gives a whole new meaning to the term cub reporter.
- We usually see the happy ending, the cub is reunited with his pride.
- It was as if the wind was blowing out for the Pirates and in for the Cubs.
- But this young journalist gives a whole new meaning to the term cub reporter.
- Addendum: Rumor has it that the cub is going by Flocke, German for [snow] flake.
- This cub is the most popular panda in the world with a live webcam that monitors him in the zoo. 10 more pics after the jump.
- And now it's six seven minutes later than it was when I started this entry, and I suppose I oughta go make some tea and see if I can figure out what the cub is thinking.
- The pride leave the zoo, after rescuing the cub from a hoard of baboons who were about to tear him apart, and travel the streets of Baghdad, looking in houses and palaces, searching for food.
- At the tribe's camp, the cub is named, and he learns that his mother is actually “Eiche,” a semi-domesticated dog formerly belonging to the Indians and that with clubs the “man-animals” protect him from the other wolves.