cub

plural cubs · alternative obsolete cubbe

1. The young of certain animals, chiefly large carnivorous mammals, including the bear, wolf, fox, lion and tiger.

   a Childe of Lacedemon suffered all his belly and gutts to be torne out by a Cubbe or young Foxe, which he had stolne, and kept close under his garment, rather then he would discover his theft.

   1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 32, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

2. derogatoryhumorousA child, especially an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy.

   He had also kept with him two wild young wives and several wilder cubs.

   1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 118

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   O, thou dissembling cub! what wilt thou be / When time hath sowed a grizzle on thy case?

   c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]

3. slangA young man who seeks relationships with older women, or "cougars".
4. obsoleteA stall for cattle.

   [...] I would rather have such a good mother in cub or kennel, than in my closet, or at my table.

   1824, Walter Savage Landor, “Conversation XIII. Peter Leopold and President Du Paty.”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume I, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 193

5. Synonym of cub reporter.

   […] from competing publications and the editors of publications that might buy freelance material from cubs.

   2018, Randall S. Sumpter, Before Journalism Schools

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   Swain has interviewed 67 reporters on 16 metropolitan dailies in 10 cities — from cubs to veterans — who talk candidly […]

   1978, The Journalism Quarterly, volume 55, page 652

   Synonyms: cub reporter

6. slanglifestyleA furry character that is a child (i.e. under the age of adulthood).
7. abbreviationclippingslanglifestyleClipping of cub porn or cub art.

   Ew, I didn't know he also drew cub...

8. Northern IrelandUlsterA boy or young man.

   A man who reared ten cubs and three cutties.

   1993, Ray Givans, No Surrender, Castlecaulfield, Lapwing Publications, →ISBN, page 14

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   The point of the example is educational, moral, and the moral qualities of the stories attracted Peter Flanagan who remembered them from childhood and told them to the cutties and cubs when he was, for them, a funny old man.

   2016 September 12, Henry Glassie, The Stars of Ballymenone, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 229

9. slangLGBTa younger (or younger-looking) "bear" type of man.

present singular third person cubs · participle present cubbing · participle past cubbed · past cubbed · alternative obsolete cubbe

1. To give birth to cubs.
2. To hunt fox cubs.

   He knew that, only a few hours from London, the Hunt was cubbing over his ancestral and much-mortgaged acres, while his own horse ate its head off in a stable.

   1943, Stuart Palmer, The Puzzle of the Silver Persian

3. obsoleteTo shut up or confine.

   to fall from heaven to hell, to be cubbed up upon a sudden

   1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC

plural cubs

1. abbreviationacronymAcronym of cashed-up bogan.

plural Cubs

1. A member of the Cub Scouts.
2. ball gamesA player on the team the "Chicago Cubs".

   Jones became a Cub as the result of a pre-season trade.

plural CUBs

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of cashed-up bogan.