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Webster 1913 Edition
Chub
Chub
,Noun.
[This word seems to signify a large or thick fish. Cf. Sw.
kubb
a short and thick piece of wood, and perh. F. chabot
chub.] (Zool.)
A species to fresh-water fish of the
Cyprinidæ
or Carp family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus
; the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of the genera Semotilus
, Squalius
, Ceratichthys
, etc., and locally to several very different fishes, as the tautog
, black bass
, etc. Chub mackerel
(Zool.)
, a species of mackerel (
– Scomber colias
) in some years found in abundance on the Atlantic coast, but absent in others; – called also bull mackerel
, thimble-eye
, and big-eye mackerel
. Chub sucker
(Zool.)
, a fresh-water fish of the United States (
Erimyzon sucetta
); – called also creekfish
.Webster 1828 Edition
Chub
CHUB
,Noun.
Definition 2024
chub
chub
English
Noun
chub (plural chubs or chub)
- One of various species of freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae or carp family, especially:
- the European chub, Leuciscus cephalus
- in Europe, its close relatives, notably the fallfish.
- By extension, various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes.
- in North America, the black bass.
Derived terms
Translations
Leuciscus cephalus
Etymology 2
Back-formation from chubby.
Noun
chub (plural chubs)
- A chubby, plump person
- (LGBT slang) An overweight or obese gay man.
- A plastic or other flexible package of meat, usually ground meat or luncheon meat.
- 1998, Center for Public Integrity, Safety last: the politics of e. coli and other food-borne killers:
- One thing that makes recovering product harder is grocery stores' and restaurants' practice of regrinding one company's lot, or "chub," of meat with those from other companies, thus making trace-back harder.
- 1999, Walter Soroka, Fundamentals of packaging technology:
- Chub packaging is versatile. Package sizes can range from miniature tubes up to 150-mm diameter and 1220 mm in length (6-in. diameter and 48 in. long). Virtually any pumpable paste can be filled into a chub pack
- 2001, John R. Romans, The meat we eat:
- A typical gelbwurst chub is 24 inches long and about 2V2 inches thick.
- 2004, Alberta Beef Producers, I Love Alberta Beef, page 15:
- Once opened, use or freeze the meat within one day. Tube or chub packaging is used for fresh or frozen ground beef. Use or freeze fresh meat chubs within a day
- 2007, Greg M. Burnham, Predicting pathogen growth and death in raw meat and poultry, page 86:
- A time/temperature history for either the product (4.5 kg chubs of coarse-ground beef) or the storage environment ... After inoculation, the surface of each 4.5-kg coarse-ground beef chub contained six samples inoculated with E. coli
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