n.
- the truncated remnant of a pencil, cigarette, or similar-shaped object after use.
- a truncated or unusually short thing:
he wagged his little stub of tail.
- the counterfoil of a cheque, ticket, or other document.
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[as modifier]
denoting a projection or hole that goes only part of the way through a surface.
v.
(stubs, stubbing, stubbed)
- accidentally strike (one's toe) against something.
- extinguish (a cigarette) by pressing the lighted end against something.
- grub up (a plant) by the roots.
Etymology
OE stub(b) ‘stump of a tree’, of Gmc origin.