dub

verb

1. (transitive)To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword, the accolade.

   “You promiſt Knighthood to our forward ſonne, / Vnſheath your ſword, and dub him preſently.”

   “It occurred to him that he had not been dubbed a knight, and that according to the law of chivalry he neither could nor ought to bear arms against any knight; […].”

2. (informal, transitive)To name, to entitle, to call.

   “They tripped along the murky aisles with the rest of the company, visiting the familiar wonders of the cave—wonders dubbed with rather over-descriptive names, such as “The Drawing-Room,” “The Cathedral,” Aladdin’s Palace,” and so on.”

   “As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.””

   “Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.”

   “Stephen reigned from 1135-1154, that nasty period of our history dubbed 'The Anarchy', when forces loyal to Stephen contested the throne with those of Henry I's daughter Matilda, who by rights should have been queen. Stephen, her cousin, plonked his own posterior on the throne.”

3. (transitive)To deem.

   “A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth.”

4. To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.

   “His diadem was dropped down / Dubbed with stones.”

5. To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.

   “to dub a stick of timber smooth”

6. To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.

   “For dressing or dubbing cloths, either wet or dry, otherwise than by green cards and pickards”

7. To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.

   “1852-1866, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures When the skin is thoroughly cleansed, and while yet in its wet and distended state, the process of stuffing, or dubbing (probably a corruption of daubing), is performed. Both sides of the skin, but chiefly the flesh side, are smeared or daubed with a mixture of cod-oil and tallow”

8. To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.

   “if you can dub a Fly of the exact colour of the Natural Fly, Fish at that instant take, it's sufficient”

9. To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
10. To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.

    “Now the drum dubb's.”

11. To do something badly.
12. To execute a shot poorly.
13. To add sound to film or change audio on film.
14. To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
15. To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation
16. To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.
17. (UK, obsolete, transitive)To open or close.

    “"Crash the cull—down with him—down with him before he dubs the jigger. Tip him the degan, Fib, fake him through and through; if he pikes we shall all be scragged."”

noun

1. (rare)A blow, thrust, or poke.

   “And kettle-drums, whose sullen dub Sounds like the hooping of a tub”

2. A poorly executed shot.
3. (historical, slang)An unskillful, awkward person.

   “As I came over the hill, I saw Ernest Plinlimmon and his partner, in whom I recognized a prominent local dub, emerging from the rough on the right. Apparently, the latter had sliced from the tee, and Ernest had been helping him find his ball.”

   “The miser, a-seeking lost gelt, / The doughboy, awaiting the battle, / May possibly know how I felt / While the long years dragged by as the dealer / As slow as the slowest of dubs, / Stuck out the last helping of tickets / 'Till I lifted—the Bullet of Clubs!”

4. (countable)A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
5. (uncountable)A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.

   “It’s also burnished by intriguing sense of vaguely dub-influenced space. At one point, it breaks down to little more than a stabbing, echoing organ with a vintage reggae flavour.”

6. (uncountable)A trend in music starting in 2009, in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.

   “But I think my bass playing is definitely dub-influenced.”

   “Dyl’s polyrhythmic grooves on The Subsurface Project fuse dub techno and drum & bass, mixing modular sounds with hints of warm, jittery jungle.”

   “It reminded me of that classic Full Cycle vibe of jazzy soulful sounds blending with dub bass and fx.”

7. (countable, slang)A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.

   “[…] we climbed up the scaffolding and did these gold little dubs and you couldn't see them.”

   “The year 1998 was alive with graffiti and trains pulling up with dubs on their sides.”

8. (countable)The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; an instance of dubbing.
9. (UK, dialectal)A pool or puddle.

   ““Has he nae friends?” said she, in a tearful voice. “That has he so!” cried Alan, “if we could but win to them!—friends and rich friends, beds to lie in, food to eat, doctors to see to him—and here he must tramp in the dubs and sleep in the heather like a beggarman.””

10. (slang)A twenty-dollar sack of marijuana.
11. (slang)A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.

    “When I pull up out front, you see the Benz on dubs.”

12. (UK, obsolete)A lock.
13. (UK, obsolete)A key, especially a master key; a lock pick.

    “[…]going upon the dobbin, is a woman dressed like a servant maid, no hat nor cloak on, a bunch of young dubs by her side, which are a bunch of small keys[…]”

14. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping)Clipping of double-u.

    “World Wide Web or WWW Pronouncing this "dub dub dub" (with no rub-a) will definitely establish you as an insider.”

    “I once met a gaggle of Aussies who'd paid thousands of dollars out of their own pockets for airfare and registration to attend an annual Apple convention called the Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC—or, in this crowd, “Dub Dub.””

15. (Internet)Clipping of double-u.

    “I haven't had a dub in a few games.”

16. (India, historical)A small copper coin once used in India.
17. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of dysfunctional uterine bleeding.
18. (Ireland, colloquial)A Dubliner.

    “There is a distinction between Dubliners on the one hand and "rednecks" on the other. […] The Dubs historically went to Liverpool and Birmingham, so they don't have the connections.”

    “I did the Pat Kenny show one night and talked about coming from the bottom up, and I got numerous letters, saying to hear somebody with a Dub accent running the brewery was unbelievable.”

    “Eric released her, grinning. You're a Dub anyway, he said.”

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of University of Dublin, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.