cubby

noun

cub·by | \ ˈkə-bē

plural cubbies

Definition of cubby

: a small, snug place (as for hiding or storage) : cubbyhole Each boy on coming in gives his name, pays six cents, gets a key, and puts away his hat, books, and jacket (if he has 'em) in his own cubby for the night.— Madeleine B. Stern The room was little more than a cubby choked with wires, splitters, routers, and electronic boxes. You would have said there was no room for a man.— Stephen King

Examples of cubby in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Taco Bell’s cubby system comes in the wake of similar concepts tried by other chains, both successes and failures. — Ann-marie Alcántara, WSJ, "Want to Grab Your Food Pickup Order From a Locker? Taco Bell Bets You Do.," 4 May 2021 Its integrated pen cubby looks virtually identical to the one on the Surface Pro X. — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, "Dell's new Latitude 7320 Detachable will take on the Surface Pro 7+," 27 Apr. 2021 The cubby holes holding keys to the 14 rooms and cabins Nuñez rents out are nearly all stuffed with messages and mail. — Washington Post, "A road like no other, in peril like never before," 27 Feb. 2021 More than a year later, Flavia Peréa is still seeking basic information about what happened that day in the first-grade cubby area. — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, "From bad to worse: Bruins knocked down again in New York, this time by Rangers," 26 Feb. 2021 On every day except Sunday, my uncle Guy faces a wall of cubby holes in the back of a post office in southern Arizona. — The Economist, "Behind the news Delivering the election: a rural mailman makes his rounds," 28 Oct. 2020 Microsoft’s nifty, rechargeable Surface Slim Pen, which resides within the Signature Keyboard’s cubby, will still be sold separately. — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, "Microsoft refreshes Surface Pro X tablet with a faster SQ2 chip and new color options," 1 Oct. 2020 Dear Heloise: Many of us have desks with a cubby for a computer tower, but no longer have a desktop computer. — Washington Post, "Hints From Heloise: Raccoons didn’t want to face the music," 15 Oct. 2020 Microsoft debuted the Surface Pro X less than a year ago, significantly revamping the Surface tablet hardware with additional USB-C ports and the rechargeable pen cubby. — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, "Microsoft refreshes Surface Pro X tablet with a faster SQ2 chip and new color options," 1 Oct. 2020

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