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Chub
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- 1 One of various species of freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae or carp family, especially:; A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus)
- 2 A chubby, plump, or overweight person. countable, slang
- 3 European freshwater game fish with a thick spindle-shaped body wordnet
- 4 One of various species of freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae or carp family, especially:; In Europe, its close relatives, notably the fallfish.
- 5 An overweight gay man who is part of the chubby subculture. countable, slang, specifically
"It could be any dude, as long as you really want to fuck him. It could be a... a twink, a bear, an otter, a circuit queen, a chub, a pup, a gipster, a daddy chaser, a leatherman, a ladyboy, a Donald Duck. Donald Duck's a gay guy who's been kicked out of the Navy."
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- 6 Any of various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes. broadly
- 7 An erection of the penis. countable, slang
"I shift in my seat trying to get comfortable refusing to believe that my dick is in full chub mode right now because of the girl whose pigtails I used to pull to try to drive her crazy when she was younger."
- 8 Any of various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes.; In North America, a black bass. broadly
- 9 A plastic or other flexible package of meat, usually ground meat or luncheon meat. countable
"One thing that makes recovering product harder is grocery stores' and restaurants' practice of regrinding one company's lot, or "chub," of meat with those from other companies, thus making trace-back harder."
- 10 Excess body fat. informal, uncountable
"so all this chub and lack of fitness will be something I embrace in two days when I quit my new diet and exercise plan."
- 1 To stop a bill from being passed using procedural delays. Texas, US
"The Texas House, where, with the 140-day legislative session nearing an end, the Democratic minority "chubbed" a voter ID bill, and coincidentally more, to death."
Etymology
From chub (“short, thick fish species used as bait"; used metaphorically since 1558 for "lazy person”), from Middle English chubbe (“chub (the river fish)”), recorded since c.1450, probably an assibilated form of cub (“a lump, heap, mass”) and cob, from Middle English *cubbe (found only in derivative cubbel (“a block to which an animal is tethered”)), from Old Norse kubbr, kumbr (“block, stump, log”) and/or Old Norse kumben (“stumpy”), see kobbi. Cognate with Icelandic kubbur (“block, cube”), Norwegian kubb, kubbe (“block, stump, log”), Swedish kubb (“block, log”), and perhaps to Icelandic kubba (“to hew, chop, lop”) and Russian кубышка (kubyška). More at cob, kibble.
Back-formation from chubby.
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