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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats