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bub  (bb)
n. Slang
Used as a term of familiar address, especially for a man or boy: See you around, bub.

[Probably alteration and shortening of brother.]

bub [bʌb]
n
1. US informal fellow; youngster: used as a form of address
2. Austral and NZ slang
a.  a baby
b. 
bubs grade the first grade of schooling; nursery school
[perhaps from German Bube boy]
Translations
bub
n (US inf) → Alte(r) m (inf), → Mann m (inf)


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A workingman would come in, feeling cheerful after his day's work was over, and it would trouble him to have to take his glass with such a sight under his nose; and so he would call out: "Hello, Bub, what's the matter?
 
 
 
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