Usually means: Container for holding water, bathing.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. tub: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tub: Merriam-Webster
  3. tub: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tub: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tub: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tub: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tub, tub: Wordnik
  8. tub: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tub: Wiktionary
  10. tub: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tub: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tub: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tub: Dictionary.com
  14. tub: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tub: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. TUB (gene), Tub (container), Tub (unit), Tub: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tub: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tub: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tub: Rhymezone
  20. tub: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tub: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. TUB: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Tub: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. tub: FreeDictionary.org
  25. tub: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. tub: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tub-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Tub: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. TUB: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. tub: CCI Computer
  3. tub: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. tub, tub(o)-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. TUB: Acronym Finder
  2. TUB: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. tub: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tub, tub, tub, tub: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. T.U.B, T.U.B, Tub: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Tub: Bicycle Glossary
  3. Tub: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Tub: Glossary of Cheese Terms
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See tubbable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tub)

noun:  A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
noun:  The contents or capacity of such a vessel.
noun:  A bathtub.
noun:  (nautical, informal) A slow-moving craft.
noun:  (humorous or derogatory) Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
noun:  A small cask.
noun:  Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
noun:  (mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
noun:  (obsolete) A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.
noun:  (slang) A corpulent or obese person.
noun:  (automotive) The bare body shell of an automobile (minus the doors, hood, trunk lid, fenders, etc.) which is lowered onto the chassis at the time of assembly, or in the case of modern unibody designed vehicles, is itself a monocoque around which the rest of the vehicle is built.
verb:  (transitive) To plant, set, or store in a tub.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To bathe in a tub.

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