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In some senses, cub is marked as derogatory, slang, obsolete, humorous. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
A member of the Cub Scouts.
A player on the team the "Chicago Cubs".
Jones became a Cub as the result of a pre-season trade.
noun
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.
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.
A young man who seeks relationships with older women, or "cougars".
A stall for cattle.
[...] I would rather have such a good mother in cub or kennel, than in my closet, or at my table.
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
To give birth to cubs.
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.
To shut up or confine.
to fall from heaven to hell, to be cubbed up upon a sudden