Cub

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  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • 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. A stall for cattle.
  • noun. A cupboard.
  • transitive verb. To shut up or confine.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • initialism. cashed up bogan.
  • noun. A young fox.
  • noun. The young of certain other animals, including the bear, wolf, lion and whale.
  • verb. To give birth to cubs
  • verb. To hunt fox cubs
  • verb. To shut up or confine.
  • 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)
  • Word Usage
    "BLITZER: It gives a whole new meaning to the term cub reporter."
    cross-reference
    to cub it  
    Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bear  beginner  birth  boy  deliver  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Hub  bub  chubb  club  drub  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    babe  bear  boar  calve  colt  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    birdling  boy  bub  bubba  buck  
    variant
    cubbed  cubbing  
    verb-form
    cubbed  cubbing  cubs