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Is dub a Scrabble word?

Yes, dub is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 6 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of dub?

Definition

verb (English)

1. (transitive, now historical or ceremonial) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword, the accolade.Examples: "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; […]."Synonyms: knighttransitive

2. (transitive, now informal) To name, to entitle, to call.Examples: "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."Synonyms: designate, name, bename, call, clepe, denominate, designate, dubinformaltransitive

3. (transitive) To deem.Examples: "A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth."Synonyms: consider, think of, account, count, esteem, see, consider, deemtransitive

4. (heading) To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.Examples: "to dub a stick of timber smooth"

5. (heading) To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.Examples: "For dressing or dubbing cloths, either wet or dry, otherwise than by green cards and pickards"

6. (heading) To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.Examples: "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"

verb (English)

1. (golf) To execute a shot poorly.

noun (English)

1. (rare) A blow, thrust, or poke.Examples: "And kettle-drums, whose sullen dub Sounds like the hooping of a tub"rare

2. (golf) A poorly executed shot.

noun (English)

1. (slang, now historical) An unskillful, awkward person.Examples: "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!"historicalslang

noun (English)

1. (music, countable) A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.countable

2. (music, uncountable) A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.Examples: "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."uncountable

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

4. (slang, countable) A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.Examples: "[…] 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."countableslang

5. (countable) The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; an instance of dubbing.countable

noun (English)

1. (UK, dialect) A pool or puddle.Examples: "“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.”"UKdialectal

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "dub"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "dub"?

Scrabble
6 points
D2
U1
B3
Words With Friends
8 points
D2
U2
B4

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