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cub
/kʌb/
noun 9verb 3
Collocations
4ADJ.
little
VERB + CUB
bear, became, called, catch, dissembling, got, keep, rescued
CUB + NOUN
amellal, berber, hagar, reporter, saturday, scout, thou, wilt
PREP.
from, in, out, until, with, with
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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Jones became a Cub as the result of a pre-season trade.
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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.
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O, thou dissembling cub! what wilt thou be / When time hath sowed a grizzle on thy case?
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He had also kept with him two wild young wives and several wilder cubs.
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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.
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to fall from heaven to hell, to be cubbed up upon a sudden
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