bub
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Just once, I’d like to go out, let him pick up the tab, and see what the hub-bub is all about.
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- noun Slang Used as a term of familiar address, especially for a man or boy: See you around, bub.
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- "Yes, I dare, " said Harry, -because Dumbledore's last plan hasn't backfired on me at all. — Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows
- Guided by the infernal hub - bub, I sprang to the rescue of my friend, but had hardly taken a stride in the darkness when the whole room blazed with a blinding white light that burned into my brain and heart and memory a vivid pic - ture of the combatants on the floor, Moxon under - neath, his throat still in the clutch of those iron hands, his head forced backward, his eyes protrud - ing, his mouth wide open and his tongue thrust out; and -- horrible contrast! — Can Such Things Be
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Just once, I’d like to go out, let him pick up the tab, and see what the hub-bub is all about.
— chicagojo Diary Entry -
I bub--bub--believe, I'm going to make a bub--bub--bloody exhibitiod of byself CAPT. M. (_Sniffing openly and feeling in his left cuff._) I b-b--believe, I'b doing it already.
— Soldiers Three -
"watermelon" to find out what the bub was all 'bout.
— Think Progress
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- Probably alteration and shortening of brother.
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/ (bŭb)/
ahd pronounces "bub"
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