Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of the young of bears, wolves, lions, pandas, or certain other animals.
- noun A youth, especially one who is inexperienced, awkward, or ill-mannered.
- noun A novice or learner, particularly in newspaper reporting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bring forth, as a cub or cubs.
- Contemptuously, to bring forth young, as a woman.
- noun The young of certain quadrupeds, especially of the bear, fox, and wolf, also of the lion and tiger (more commonly whelp), and rarely of the dog and some others; a puppy; a whelp.
- noun A coarse or uncouth boy or girl: in contempt or reprobation.
- noun Hence An assistant to a physician or surgeon in a hospital.
- noun A lump; a heap; a confused mass.
- To shut up or confine.
- noun A stall for cattle; a crib.
- noun A chest; a bin.
- noun A cupboard.
- noun An abbreviation of
cubic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb To bring forth; -- said of animals, or in contempt, of persons.
- noun A young animal, esp. the young of the bear.
- noun Jocosely or in contempt, a boy or girl, esp. an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy.
- noun obsolete A stall for cattle.
- noun obsolete A cupboard.
- transitive verb obsolete To shut up or confine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- initialism
cashed up bogan . - noun A young
fox . - noun by extension The
young of certain other animals, including thebear ,wolf ,lion andwhale . - verb To
give birth to cubs - verb To
hunt fox cubs - verb obsolete To shut up or confine.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an awkward and inexperienced youth
- verb give birth to cubs
- noun the young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion
- noun a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But this young journalist gives a whole new meaning to the term cub reporter.
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BLITZER: It gives a whole new meaning to the term cub reporter.
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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.
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` ` I'm what we call a cub reporter, '' laughed Carr.
The Red Cross Girl 1917
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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.
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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.
“Pride of Baghdad” by Brian K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon (Vertigo, 2006) « The BookBanter Blog 2010
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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.
Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang 2010
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Addendum: Rumor has it that the cub is going by Flocke, German for [snow] flake.
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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.
further displacement activity truepenny 2008
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We usually see the happy ending, the cub is reunited with his pride.
January 2007 2007
kewpid commented on the word cub
Round these here parts, this means cashed-up bogan :P
September 22, 2007
reesetee commented on the word cub
Like nouveau riche?
September 25, 2007