cub

noun \ ˈkəb \

Updated on: 11 Apr 2018

Definition of cub

1 a : a young carnivorous mammal (such as a bear, fox, or lion)

b : a young shark

2 : a young person

3 : apprentice; especially : an inexperienced newspaper reporter

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Examples of cub in a Sentence

the kind of big story that can propel a cub reporter into the stratosphere of the newspaper world
assigned to teach a bunch of young cubs how to play baseball

Recent Examples of cub from the Web

She's also seen tiger cubs sold in Wal-Mart parking lots and other wild cats exchanged in truck stops or along interstate rest areas.

— howard ludwig, Daily Southtown, "Bobcat found living with convicted felon in Orland Park finds new home at Minnesota wildcat sanctuary," 30 Mar. 2018
Three cheetah cubs at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park now have names.

— bradley j. fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, "San Diego Zoo's three cheetah cubs now have names," 28 Mar. 2018
The cub is the first wild white lion that McCabe or his colleague, animal tracker Fanny Mathonsi, have ever seen.

— National Geographic, "Rare White Lion Cub Seen in South Africa," 27 Mar. 2018
Nora emerged as a beloved zoo animal after she was abandoned by her mother as a six-day old cub at the Columbus Zoo in 2015.

— the oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, "Nora the polar bear reporter Kale Williams collects another journalism honor," 22 Mar. 2018
The recovered cub was named Moka and now lives at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, reports the Sacramento Bee.

— chris harris, PEOPLE.com, "Calif. Teen Sentenced to Six Months For Smuggling Bengal Tiger Cub Into U.S.," 22 Feb. 2018
The cubs have grown from a wee 4.5 pounds to a mighty 20 pounds each!

— rebecca angel baer, Southern Living, "Meet Jacksonville Zoo’s New Baby Tigers," 9 Feb. 2018
Adopting their cubs as pets would then have been easy, beginning the process of genetic selection toward tameness and, eventually, trainability.

— Longreads, "The Way We Treat Our Pets Is More Paleolithic Than Medieval," 22 Mar. 2018
Visitors can check out the cub and its mom Victoria at the Royal Zoological Society's Highland Wildlife Park in Scotland, where it was born in December.

— marian liu, CNN, "UK to get first glimpse of polar bear cub," 21 Mar. 2018

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