Definitions for dubs

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dubs dub

Spelling: [duhb]

IPA: /dʌb/

Dubs is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in dubs (bdsu).

Definitions for dubs

noun

1. an awkward, unskillful person.
2. a thrust; poke.
3. a drumbeat.
4. the new sounds added to a film or tape.
5. a style of popular music based on reggae and produced by remixing previously recorded music to which audio samples and sound effects are added.
6. a pool of water; puddle.

Idioms

1. dub bright, Shipbuilding. to shave off the outer surface of the planking of (a ship).

Verb phrases

1. dub out, to omit or erase (unwanted sound) on a tape or sound track:

verb (used with object)

1. to invest with any name, character, dignity, or title; style; name; call:
2. to strike lightly with a sword in the ceremony of conferring knighthood; make, or designate as, a knight:
3. to strike, cut, rub, or make smooth, as leather or timber.
4. to thrust; poke.
5. Golf. to hit (a ball) poorly; misplay (a shot).
6. to execute poorly.
7. to furnish (a film or tape) with a new sound track, as one recorded in the language of the country of import.
8. to add (music, speech, etc.) to a film or tape recording (often followed by in).
9. to copy (a tape or disc recording).

verb (used without object)

1. to thrust; poke.
2. to copy program material from one tape recording onto another.

Origin of dubs

1175-1225; Middle English dubben, late Old English *dubbian (in phrase dubbade tō ridere ‘dubbed to knight(hood)’), Anglo-French dubber, dobber, douber, aphetic form of ad(o)uber, equivalent

Examples for dubs

To combat the malaise, fast food joints are pursuing a high-low strategy, or, as I prefer to dub it, the “Moms and Bros” strategy.

People can talk all they want to about your bein' just a dub—I won't believe 'em.

Going to a turf pit, he dipped both hands in the dub, and brought some water.

The latest purge prompted Carl Bildt, Sweden's foreign minister, to dub Mr Kim's regime “the empire of horror.”

The lack of specificity led White House spokesman Jay Carney to dub the plan “magic beans and fairy dust.”

It's the thing to be alive in athletics and a dub in everything else.

I am nothing but a dub—and you—they say are rich—but some day I'm going to be something else.

Really, Miss Knowles, you must think me a good deal of a dub.

Support for the royals rose to 35-year highs, leading some wags to dub Prince George “the Republican slayer”.

His friendship with Bill Clinton has prompted Barbara Bush to dub Clinton her fifth son.