bub

1. historicalslanguncountableAn alcoholic malt liquor, especially beer.

   "You can't remember your *name*? Heh. Well, NEXT time you spend a night in this berg, go easy on the bub."

   1999 October 12, Black Isle Studios, quoting Morte, Planescape: Torment, Interplay Entertainment

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   Bub is made from ground barley and strong worts, and sometimes from strong small worts from the coolers, properly blended and boiled with some hops, in the proportion of one pound to a barrel of worts.

   1838, Samuel Morewood, A Philosophical and Statistical History of the Inventions and Customs of Ancient and Modern Nations in the Manufacture and Use of Inebriating Liquors, page 662

plural bubs

1. slangA woman's breast.

   ‘Mr. Blanford, I esteem that there is nothing more sublime in nature than a glimpse of an English lady's bubs.’

   1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Penguin, published 2004, page 631

plural bubs

1. A term of familiar address; bubba; bubby.

   1857, Clara Augusta, Mrs. Peter Dame, George R. Graham, Graham′s Illustrated Magazine, Volume 50, page 398, Mrs. Peter filled her pocket with the cherries — “ Victoria and bub are so fond of them!” and we scrambled into the wagon.

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   So he changed his brusque manner, and inquired, in a tone which was intended to be extremely conciliatory : ‘ What′s your name, bub ? ’ ‘ The last one, Sir ? ’ asked bub, looking up.

   1857, T. B. Aldrich, What Jedd Pallfry found in the Coffin: The Knickerbocker, volume 49, page 23

2. A young brother; a little boy; a familiar term of address for a small boy.

plural bubs

1. AustraliaslangA baby.

plural bubs

1. abbreviationclippingClipping of bubble.
2. abbreviationclippingslangClipping of bubbly; champagne.

   You find me in da club, bottle full of bub

   2003, “In da Club”, in Get Rich or Die Tryin', performed by 50 Cent

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   Out in the club and I'm sippin' that bub / And you're not gonna reach my telephone

   2010, “Telephone”, performed by Lady Gaga

present singular third person bubs · participle present bubbing · participle past bubbed · past bubbed

1. obsoleteTo throw out in bubbles; to bubble.

   We passed on so far forth till we saw Rude Acheron, a loathsome lake to tell, That boils and bubs up swelth as black as hell

   1563, Thomas Sackville, The Induction

plural Bubs

1. A surname from German.