Definitions for stub

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stub stub

Spelling: [stuhb]

IPA: /stʌb/

Stub 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 29 anagrams from letters in stub (bstu).

Definitions for stub

noun

1. a short projecting part.
2. a short remaining piece, as of a pencil, candle, or cigar.
3. (in a checkbook, receipt book, etc.) the inner end of each leaf, for keeping a record of the content of the part filled out and torn away.
4. the returned portion of a ticket.
5. the end of a fallen tree, shrub, or plant left fixed in the ground; stump.
6. something having a short, blunt shape, especially a short-pointed, blunt pen.
7. stub nail.
8. something having the look of incomplete or stunted growth, as a horn of an animal.
9. Bridge. a part-score.

adjective

1. stocky; squat.

verb (used with object)

1. to strike accidentally against a projecting object:
2. to extinguish the burning end of (a cigarette or cigar) by crushing it against a solid object (often followed by out):
3. to clear of stubs, as land.
4. to dig up by the roots; grub up (roots).

Origin of stub

before 1000; (noun) Middle English stubb(e), Old English stubb tree stump; cognate with Middle Low German, Middle Dutch stubbe, Old Norse stubbi; akin to Old Norse stūfr stump; (v.) late Midd

Examples for stub

When you stub your toe while walking, you tend to fall forward.

There was nothing left of the fingers but the stub of one, and the thumb!

When you stub your toe, you have to run forward to keep from falling.

He took the stub of a lead pencil from the pocket of his shirt.

The ground is frozen hard; we stub our toes on the frozen ruts in the road.

Clean the stub of the post thoroughly and also clean the inside of the post builder.

I felt there were a lot of ways that I could spend the stub end of my life cycle that were more productive.

His stub of a tail jerked spasmodically, in its struggle to wag.

Instead, they were forced to compromise by having him stub out a cigarette.

Cheyenne pinched out the fire in his cigarette and flipped the stub away from him.