Chub
[chuhb] /tʃʌb/
noun, plural (especially collectively) chub (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) chubs.
1.
a common freshwater fish, Leuciscus cephalus, of European waters, having a thick, fusiform body.
2.
any of various related fishes.
3.
any of several unrelated American fishes, especially the tautog and whitefishes of the genus Coregonus, of the Great Lakes.
/tʃʌb/
noun (pl) chub, chubs
1.
a common European freshwater cyprinid game fish, Leuciscus (or Squalius) cephalus, having a cylindrical dark greenish body
2.
any of various North American fishes, esp certain whitefishes and minnows
n.
type of river fish, mid-15c., chubbe, of unknown origin. In Europe, a kind of carp; in U.S., the black bass.
noun
A penile erection: a chubby in your pants
the name of a people in alliance with Egypt in the time of Nebuchadnezzar. The word is found only in Ezek. 30:5. They were probably a people of Northern Africa, or of the lands near Egypt in the south.
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