Usually means: Young animal, offspring of carnivores.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. cub: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cub: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cub: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cub: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cub: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cub, cub: Wordnik
  7. cub: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cub, cub: Wiktionary
  9. cub: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cub: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cub: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cub, cub, cub: Dictionary.com
  13. cub: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cub: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. CUB, Cub (band), Cub (film), Cub (organism), Cub, The Cub: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cub: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cub: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cub: Rhymezone
  19. cub: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cub: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Cub: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. cub: Free Dictionary
  23. cub: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. cub: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. Cub: World Wide Words
  26. cub: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. cub: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

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

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. Cub: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cub: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. CUB: Acronym Finder
  4. CUB: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cub, cub: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cub: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See cubing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A member of the Cub Scouts.
noun:  (baseball) A player on the team the "Chicago Cubs".
noun:  A young fox.
noun:  (by extension) The young of certain other animals, including the bear, wolf, lion and tiger.
noun:  (humorous or derogatory) A child, especially an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy.
noun:  (slang) A young man who seeks relationships with older women, or "cougars".
noun:  (obsolete) A stall for cattle.
noun:  Synonym of cub reporter
noun:  (furry fandom) A furry character who is a child.
noun:  (Northern Ireland, Ulster) A boy or young man.
verb:  To give birth to cubs.
verb:  To hunt fox cubs.
verb:  (obsolete) To shut up or confine.
noun:  Acronym of cashed up bogan. [(Australia) A person who is unsophisticated or of a lower class background but achieving a high salary, who spends money on flashy or trashy items to fulfil their aspirations of higher social status. The stereotype includes having speech and mannerisms that are considered to denote poor education and uncultured upbringing, which is reflected in their bad taste possessions and lifestyles.]
noun:  Initialism of cashed up bogan. [(Australia) A person who is unsophisticated or of a lower class background but achieving a high salary, who spends money on flashy or trashy items to fulfil their aspirations of higher social status. The stereotype includes having speech and mannerisms that are considered to denote poor education and uncultured upbringing, which is reflected in their bad taste possessions and lifestyles.]

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