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gub

gub noun: mouth.

Noun

gub (plural gubs)

  1. (Scotland, slang) Mouth.
    • "...fucked-up Yank who's too screwed up to lift a forkful of scran into her gub?"1994, "The acid House", Irvine Welsh, in Eurotrash
    • Except that the deal's off if some wee scrote of a doctor opens his gub.2001, Christopher Brookmyre, Quite ugly one morning, page 147
    Synonyms:
    gob

Verb

gub (third-person singular simple present gubs, present participle gubbing, simple past and past participle gubbed)

  1. (slang) To defeat.
    • We just got gubbed 5-1.

Proper noun capitalized: GUB

GUB

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Green University of Bangladesh (a university in Dhaka, Bangladesh).
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Global University Bangladesh (a university in Barishal, Bangladesh).

Synonyms of gub

Forms of gub

Noun
pluralgubs
Verb
third-person singular presentgubs
present participlegubbing
past participlegubbed
pastgubbed

Origin of gub

Variant of gob.

Words formed from gub

Questions about gub

What does gub mean?
Gub means mouth.
What part of speech is gub?
Gub can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
What is the plural of gub?
The plural of gub is gubs.

Words near gub in the dictionary

  1. guazils
  2. guazu
  3. guazu vira
  4. guazus
  5. guazuti
  6. gub
  7. gub'ment
  8. gub'ments
  9. gub'mint
  10. gub'mints
  11. Guba

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gub (page history and authors); GUB (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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