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  • noun Plural form of stub.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stub.

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Examples

  • One thing we should all see on our payroll check stubs is the cost of our employer-provided benefit programs.

    Top Dems blame insurance industry as health care roadblock 2009

  • Unfortunately, right now, we're living for tomorrow, said Jones, who added that a pair of scalpers tried to offer him stubs from a Game 4 ticket.

    Storm brings World Series calm; Phillies know it won't last 2008

  • Fans who had ticket stubs from the Bengals 'game were eligible for discounted tickets to the college game.

    USATODAY.com - College Football - South Florida vs. Cincinnati 2006

  • I have bank statements and pay stubs from the early nineties!

    April 3rd, 2001 2001

  • The stubs were the first solid evidence in the case and they caused a sensation.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • The stubs were the first solid evidence in the case and they caused a sensation.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • Behind the wings there is a pair of small stubs which is all that is left of the hind pair of wings.

    An Elementary Study of Insects Leonard Haseman

  • The wound should be smooth and clean, without breaks, splinters or splits; the knot-holes in logs and trunks are usually the consequence of long "stubs" and torn injured parts.

    The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 1906

  • To them, shortly and succinctly, were explained the rules: the system of "stubs" dealt out to newcomers as they gave their numbers and had lockers assigned them -- stubs to be religiously kept for the protection of property from false claimants; the working of a slot machine, in which must be slipped a card, and the moment of the morning and midday arrival thus recorded with ruthless exactitude

    Winnie Childs The Shop Girl 1901

  • There are some small dealers, who make it a business to collect these "stubs," or employ others to do so, and then sell them to the street boys, at a penny apiece, or less, according to size.

    Ben, the Luggage Boy; or, Among the Wharves Horatio Alger 1865

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