Associations to the word «Cub»

Wiktionary

CUB, proper noun. A member of the Cub Scouts.
CUB, proper noun. (baseball) A player on the team the "Chicago Cubs".
CUB, noun. A young fox.
CUB, noun. (by extension) The young of certain other animals, including the bear, wolf, lion and tiger.
CUB, noun. (humorous or derogatory) A child, especially an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy.
CUB, noun. (obsolete) A stall for cattle.
CUB, noun. (obsolete) A cupboard.
CUB, verb. To give birth to cubs
CUB, verb. To hunt fox cubs
CUB, verb. (obsolete) To shut up or confine.
CUB, acronym. Cashed up bogan.
CUB, symbol. The ISO 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code for Cuba.
CUB REPORTER, noun. (dated) A young, inexperienced reporter employed by a newspaper or magazine.
CUB SCOUT, noun. A member of the junior division of the Boy Scout movement
CUB SCOUTS, noun. Plural of Cub Scout

Dictionary definition

CUB, noun. An awkward and inexperienced youth.
CUB, noun. A male child (a familiar term of address to a boy).
CUB, noun. The young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion.
CUB, verb. Give birth to cubs; "bears cub every year".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky