cub

UK /kʌb/ US /kʌb/
noun 9verb 3

Definitions

noun

1

A member of the Cub Scouts.

2

A player on the team the "Chicago Cubs".

Jones became a Cub as the result of a pre-season trade.

noun

1

The young of certain animals, chiefly large carnivorous mammals, including the bear, wolf, fox, lion and tiger.

a Childe of Lacedemon suffered all his belly and gutts to be torne out by a Cubbe or young Foxe, which he had stolne, and kept close under his garment, rather then he would discover his theft.

2

A child, especially an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy.

O, thou dissembling cub! what wilt thou be / When time hath sowed a grizzle on thy case?

He had also kept with him two wild young wives and several wilder cubs.

3

A young man who seeks relationships with older women, or "cougars".

4

A stall for cattle.

[...] I would rather have such a good mother in cub or kennel, than in my closet, or at my table.

5

Synonym of cub reporter.

Swain has interviewed 67 reporters on 16 metropolitan dailies in 10 cities — from cubs to veterans — who talk candidly […]

[…] from competing publications and the editors of publications that might buy freelance material from cubs.

verb

1

To give birth to cubs.

2

To hunt fox cubs.

He knew that, only a few hours from London, the Hunt was cubbing over his ancestral and much-mortgaged acres, while his own horse ate its head off in a stable.

3

To shut up or confine.

to fall from heaven to hell, to be cubbed up upon a sudden

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