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snubs

snubs is the plural of snub.

snubs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of snub.

Meaning of snub

Noun

snub (plural snubs)

  1. A deliberate affront or slight.
    • I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub.
  2. A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
  3. (obsolete) A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
    • [A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 7

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Questions about snubs

What is snubs the plural of?
Snubs is the plural of snub.

Words near snubs in the dictionary

  1. snubnesses
  2. snubnosed
  3. snubnosed revolver
  4. snubnosed revolvers
  5. snubproof
  6. snubs
  7. snuck
  8. snuck around
  9. snuck in
  10. snuck out
  11. snuck past

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