CUB


Meaning of CUB in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

cub reporter

Cub Scout

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

lion

I crept up to my first victim in the same way as I imagine a lion cub stalks it first wildebeest - clumsily.

reporter

He felt like a cub reporter .

When he left school, he joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter in 1917.

scout

He had often watched the cub scouts playing rounders on the beach.

I've no interest in cub scouts .

There was the red-haired cub scout who liked talking about his badges.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Cub/Brownie pack

Although she lived a long way from the town, she seldom missed Brownie Pack Meeting.

Brenda looked forward eagerly to the arrival of the Brownie Pack .

Several schools also had a Wolf Cub pack , many of which excelled in sports meetings against other Wolf Cub packs.

She also helped at a Brownie Pack and was a volunteer mini-bus driver for children with special needs.

She was poor but proud, and the 1st Shadwell Brownie Pack had to be rather careful what they did for her.

the Cub Scouts

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a seal cub

The older bears will teach the cub how bears are supposed to behave in the wild.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

I have known a fox earth populated with a family of cubs while small rabbits were running around on the surface nearby.

It is more likely that the white ear spots are there as a signal to cubs following their dam in thick jungle.

Lionesses lick their cubs into shape and life.

The cubs, all between three and seven weeks old, have been found orphaned or abandoned over the last few weeks.

The most recent estimates suggest that Britain has a population of about 250,000 adult badgers and 105,000 cubs.

There inside the den was the first of the cubs.

We saw her bury her cubs.

You know, wash a car with one hand and feed a bottle to a tiger cub with the other.

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