chub

noun

1. One of various species of freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae or carp family, especially:
2. One of various species of freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae or carp family, especially:
3. (broadly)Any of various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes.
4. (broadly)Any of various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes.
5. (countable, slang)A chubby, plump, or overweight person.
6. (countable, slang, specifically)An overweight gay man who is part of the chubby subculture.

   “It could be any dude, as long as you really want to fuck him. It could be a... a twink, a bear, an otter, a circuit queen, a chub, a pup, a gipster, a daddy chaser, a leatherman, a ladyboy, a Donald Duck. Donald Duck's a gay guy who's been kicked out of the Navy.”

7. (countable, slang)An erection of the penis.

   “I shift in my seat trying to get comfortable refusing to believe that my dick is in full chub mode right now because of the girl whose pigtails I used to pull to try to drive her crazy when she was younger.”

   “The DA was a hot young woman who gave me a chub when she finally showed up in a business skirt with a slit in the side, after I had sat around waiting for her for three hours.”

   “He briefly wondered what Carey might look like naked in his new womanly body, then realized his thoughts were in bad form, thankfully before he had a chance to get an inappropriate chub.”

8. (countable)A plastic or other flexible package of meat, usually ground meat or luncheon meat.

   “One thing that makes recovering product harder is grocery stores' and restaurants' practice of regrinding one company's lot, or "chub," of meat with those from other companies, thus making trace-back harder.”

   “Chub packaging is versatile. Package sizes can range from miniature tubes up to 150-mm diameter and 1220 mm in length (6-in. diameter and 48 in. long). Virtually any pumpable paste can be filled into a chub pack”

   “A typical gelbwurst chub is 24 inches long and about 2V2 inches thick.”

   “Once opened, use or freeze the meat within one day. Tube or chub packaging is used for fresh or frozen ground beef. Use or freeze fresh meat chubs within a day”

   “A time/temperature history for either the product (4.5 kg chubs of coarse-ground beef) or the storage environment ... After inoculation, the surface of each 4.5-kg coarse-ground beef chub contained six samples inoculated with E. coli”

9. (informal, uncountable)Excess body fat.

   “so all this chub and lack of fitness will be something I embrace in two days when I quit my new diet and exercise plan.”

verb

1. (Texas, US)To stop a bill from being passed using procedural delays.

   “The Texas House, where, with the 140-day legislative session nearing an end, the Democratic minority "chubbed" a voter ID bill, and coincidentally more, to death.”

   “Did You Know? in 2009, House Democrats chubbed to death a bill to require voters to present valid ID at the polls because they feared that it would keep low-income and elderly citizens from voting.”

   “In the House, as the session approached its end, Democrats "chubbed" the bill to death (a tactic similar to filibustering) – and, in the process, killed many other bills that were waiting in line behind it.”