tubs

Noun

tub (plural tubs)

1. A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
   • He bought a tub of lard to roast the potatoes in.
2. The contents or capacity of such a vessel.
   • She added a tub of margarine to the stew.
3. A bathtub.
   • Teach me to love my morning tub, / In waters cold to splash and rub; / O, grant my Turkish towel may flood / Its virtues through my soul and blood.1920, Theodore Sharpe, My Place in the Shade: And Various Verse, page 27
4. (informal) A slow-moving craft.
   • The rest of the evening we had a fine west wind, which carried us on at near five knots an hour, as much as our lumbering old tub can possibly go.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 166
5. (derogatory, humorous) Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
   • All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs, in the grand work of preaching and holding forth.1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London
6. A small cask.
   • a tub of gin

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