chub

plural chubs

1. One of various species of freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae or carp family, especially:
   1. A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus)
   2. In Europe, its close relatives, notably the fallfish.
2. broadlyAny of various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes.
   1. broadlyIn North America, a black bass.

plural chubs

1. countableslangA chubby, plump, or overweight person.
2. countableslangspecificallyLGBTAn overweight gay man who is part of the chubby subculture.

   It could be any dude, as long as you really want to fuck him. It could be a... a twink, a bear, an otter, a circuit queen, a chub, a pup, a gipster, a daddy chaser, a leatherman, a ladyboy, a Donald Duck. Donald Duck's a gay guy who's been kicked out of the Navy.

   2017 April 23, “Success Failure”, in Silicon Valley, season 4, episode 1, spoken by Russ Hanneman (Chris Diamantopoulos)

3. countableslangAn erection of the penis.

   The DA was a hot young woman who gave me a chub when she finally showed up in a business skirt with a slit in the side, after I had sat around waiting for her for three hours.

   2018, J.R. Hamilton, Low: Charlie's Drunkalogue

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   I shift in my seat trying to get comfortable refusing to believe that my dick is in full chub mode right now because of the girl whose pigtails I used to pull to try to drive her crazy when she was younger.

   2017, Piper Rayne, Sexy Beast

   He briefly wondered what Carey might look like naked in his new womanly body, then realized his thoughts were in bad form, thankfully before he had a chance to get an inappropriate chub.

   2019, Chad Stroup, Sexy Leper

4. countableA plastic or other flexible package of meat, usually ground meat or luncheon meat.

   A typical gelbwurst chub is 24 inches long and about 2V2 inches thick.

   2001, John R. Romans, The meat we eat

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   One thing that makes recovering product harder is grocery stores' and restaurants' practice of regrinding one company's lot, or "chub," of meat with those from other companies, thus making trace-back harder.

   1998, Center for Public Integrity, Safety last: the politics of e. coli and other food-borne killers

   Chub packaging is versatile. Package sizes can range from miniature tubes up to 150-mm diameter and 1220 mm in length (6-in. diameter and 48 in. long). Virtually any pumpable paste can be filled into a chub pack

   1999, Walter Soroka, Fundamentals of packaging technology

   Once opened, use or freeze the meat within one day. Tube or chub packaging is used for fresh or frozen ground beef. Use or freeze fresh meat chubs within a day

   2004, Alberta Beef Producers, I Love Alberta Beef, page 15

   A time/temperature history for either the product (4.5 kg chubs of coarse-ground beef) or the storage environment ... After inoculation, the surface of each 4.5-kg coarse-ground beef chub contained six samples inoculated with E. coli

   2007, Greg M. Burnham, Predicting pathogen growth and death in raw meat and poultry, page 86

5. informaluncountableExcess body fat.

   so all this chub and lack of fitness will be something I embrace in two days when I quit my new diet and exercise plan.

   2014, David Tieck, Ok, Intriguing, page 149

present singular third person chubs · participle present chubbing · participle past chubbed · past chubbed

1. TexasUSgovernmentTo stop a bill from being passed using procedural delays.

   The Texas House, where, with the 140-day legislative session nearing an end, the Democratic minority "chubbed" a voter ID bill, and coincidentally more, to death.

   2009 May 30, James C[ourtright] McKinley Jr., “The Talk, and the Talk, and the Talk, of Austin”, in The New York Times (Image caption section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022

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   Did You Know? in 2009, House Democrats chubbed to death a bill to require voters to present valid ID at the polls because they feared that it would keep low-income and elderly citizens from voting.

   2014, William Earl Maxwell, Texas Politics Today, Boston, M.A.: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, published 2013–2014, →ISBN, page 207

   In the House, as the session approached its end, Democrats "chubbed" the bill to death (a tactic similar to filibustering) – and, in the process, killed many other bills that were waiting in line behind it.

   2011 January 14, Richard Whittaker, Wells Dunbar, Lee Nichols, Jordan Smith, “This Way to the Big Top!”, in The Austin Chronicle, Austin, T.X.: Austin Chronicle Corp., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 May 2022

plural chubs

1. Synonym of oseledets, a traditional Ukrainian hairstyle.

   Synonyms: oseledets