/ stʌb; NAmE / noun , verb
■ noun
1.
a short piece of a cigarette, pencil, etc. that is left when the rest of it has been used
2.
the small part of a ticket, cheque, etc. that you keep as a record when you have given the main part to sb
—picture at chequebook
■ verb
( -bb- ) [ vn ] stub your toe (against / on sth) to hurt your toe by accident by hitting it against sth hard
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PHRASAL VERBS
- stub sth out
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WORD ORIGIN
Old English stub(b) stump of a tree , of Germanic origin. The verb is first recorded ( late Middle English ) in the sense to pull a plant up by the roots ; the current verb sense (mid 19th cent.) was originally a US usage.