Definitions for Cub

• Definition
• Anagrams (10)

Cub cub

Spelling: [kuhb]

IPA: /kʌb/

Cub is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 10 anagrams from letters in Cub (bcu).

Definitions for Cub

noun

1. the young of certain animals, as the bear, lion, or tiger.
2. a young shark.
3. a young and inexperienced person, especially a callow youth or young man.
4. a young person serving as an apprentice.
5. cub reporter.
6. cub scout.
7. (initial capital letter) Aeronautics, Trademark. any small, light monoplane with a high wing, a single engine, and an enclosed cabin.

verb (used without object)

1. to work as a cub reporter.
2. (of a female bear, lion, tiger, etc.) to give birth to a cub or cubs.
3. to hunt fox cubs.

Origin of Cub

1520-30; perhaps Scandinavian; compare Old Norse kobbi young seal, kubbr stump, hence, short, thick-set person

Examples for Cub

The cub experienced another access of affection on the part of his mother.

Straight people have discovered, and co-opted, the gay “bear” and “cub.”

But there were other forces at work in the cub, the greatest of which was growth.

As he spoke he glared at her as a lion might glare at thought of being defeated by a cub.

The end is here, but for cub detective Henry Palace, there is still one more case to solve—that of his missing sister.

Midway in the passage, the current picked up the cub and swept him downstream.

Once, the cub sprang in and sank his teeth into the hind leg of the lynx.

At what point can you tell that the “cub” has graduated to a more mature sexual persona?

If true, the cub would be named 100 days after the birth, as the Chinese tradition goes.

One mother had an alarm go off on her phone saying it was time to take her boy to a cub Scout meeting.