Usually means: Thick-bodied freshwater or marine fish.
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  1. chub: Merriam-Webster
  2. chub: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chub: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chub: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chub: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chub, chub: Wordnik
  7. chub: Wiktionary
  8. chub: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. chub: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. chub: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Chub, chub: Dictionary.com
  12. chub: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. CHUB, Chub (container), Chub (disambiguation), Chub (gay culture), Chub (gay slang), Chub: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Chub: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. chub: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. chub: Rhymezone
  17. Chub: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. chub: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. chub: FreeDictionary.org
  20. chub: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. chub: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. chub: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chub (disambiguation), Chub (zoology), chub: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CHUB: Acronym Finder

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chub: Easton Bible
  2. Chub: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. chub, chub: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. C.H.U.B, chub: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chub: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  One of various species of freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae or carp family, especially:
noun:  A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus)
noun:  In Europe, its close relatives, notably the fallfish.
noun:  (by extension) Any of various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes.
noun:  In North America, a black bass.
noun:  (countable, slang) A chubby, plump, or overweight person.
noun:  (countable, gay slang, specifically) An overweight gay man who is part of the chubby subculture.
noun:  (countable, slang) An erection of the penis.
noun:  (countable) A plastic or other flexible package of meat, usually ground meat or luncheon meat.
noun:  (uncountable, informal) Excess body fat.
verb:  (US, Texas politics) To stop a bill from being passed using procedural delays.

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