how to pronounce chub

/tʃʌb/

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chub is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of chub in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… hammer fell on lot 15 Cecil chub was …”

meanings of chub

noun:

An overweight or obese gay man.
(by extension) Any of various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes.
One of various species of freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae or carp family, especially:.
A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus).
Excess body fat.
In Europe, its close relatives, notably the fallfish.
(slang, countable) A chubby, plump person.
In North America, the black bass.
An erection (erect penis).
A plastic or other flexible package of meat, usually ground meat or luncheon meat.

chub frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word chub occurs in english on average 2.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics chub can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that chub can be often used in the following areas:

1) food and health;

2) life, nature, and living environment;