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snub(1)(dictionary)
Snub(medicine)
snub(dictionary)
snub 2, noun(dictionary)
snub 1, verb(dictionary)
snub nose(dictionary)
snub-nosed(dictionary)
snub-nosed(medicine)
Snub - Sailing(gambling)

Hot Property (money) and snub(1) (iou)


Hot Property (money)


Definition: Asset in which short-term demand is high.







snub(1) (iou)



snub noun & adjective. M16.
[from SNUB verb1.]
A. noun.
I.
An act or instance of snubbing someone; a remark or action intended to rebuff or humiliate a person, a rebuff. M16.
L. Kennedy The slightest snub..brought on a sense of hurt.
b. In pl. As interjection, expr. indifference or contempt. slang. M20.
E. Waugh I have had it straight from a real artist, and snubs to her.
a. A check, a hindrance. L16-L17.
b. A sudden check given to a rope etc. in running out; a post or stake enabling this to be done. US. L19.
A projecting snag, a stub. rare. L16.
W. de la Mare Not so much as..a snub of soap.
II.
A snub nose. M19.
Geometry. A snub polyhedron or polytope. M20.
A snub-nosed handgun. US slang. L20.
b. adjective.
Short and blunt in shape. Orig. and esp. in snub nose below. E18.
Snub-nosed. L19.
V. Woolf What a little bank clerk, snub, common, he's grown.
Geometry. Designating any of certain symmetrical polyhedra and polytopes having additional faces and hence more nearly spherical shape compared with the corresponding regular polyhedron etc. M20.
snub cube, snub dodecahedron, etc.
Comb. & special collocations: snub nose (a) a short and turned-up nose; (b) (snubnose) US slang a snub-nosed handgun; snub-nosed adjective (a) having a snub nose; (b) stumpy; short and broad at the front; (of a handgun) small and short-barrelled.