• IPA: /dʌb/

dub (dubs, present participle dubbing; past and past participle dubbed)

1. (transitive) (now historical) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword.
2. (transitive) To name, to entitle, to call. [from the later 16th c]
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:

     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.”

3. (transitive) To deem.
   • 1733-1738, Alexander Pope, Imitations of Horace

     A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth.

4. To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
   • , Morte d'Arthure

     His diadem was dropped down / Dubbed with stones.

5. (heading) To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.
   1. To dress with an adze.

      to dub a stick of timber smooth

   2. To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
   3. To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.
   4. To dress a fishing fly.
6. To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.

• (to confer knighthood) knight
• (to name, to entitle, to call.) designate, name; see also Thesaurus:denominate
• (to deem) consider, think of; see also Thesaurus:deem
• (to clothe or invest) deck out, embellish; see also Thesaurus:decorate

• French: adouber
• German: zum Ritter schlagen
• Italian: insignire
• Russian: посвяща́ть в рыцарь

• French: reconnaître (en tant que...)
• German: nennen, bezeichnen, rufen
• Italian: intitolare, nominare, chiamare, denominare
• Portuguese: chamar, apelidar
• Russian: дать про́звище/кличка
• Spanish: apodar

dub (dubs, present participle dubbing; past and past participle dubbed)

1. To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
   • 1616–1619 (first performance)​, John Fletcher, “The Mad Lover”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: Printed for Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, OCLC 3083972 ↗, Act 1, scene 1:

     Now the drum dubb's.

2. To do something badly.
3. In golf, to execute a shot poorly.

dub (plural dubs)

1. (rare) A blow, thrust, or poke.

dub (plural dubs)

1. (now historical) (slang) An unskillful, awkward person. [from the later part of the 19th c]
   • 1969, Robert L. Vann, The Competitor (volumes 2-3, page 135)

     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!

dub (dubs, present participle dubbing; past and past participle dubbed)

1. To add sound to film or change audio on film. [from the first half of the 20th c]
2. To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
3. To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation
4. To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.

• Italian: doppiare
• Russian: дубли́ровать

• Russian: дубли́ровать

• French: doubler
• German: synchronisieren
• Italian: doppiare
• Portuguese: dobrar (Portugal), dublar (Brazil)
• Russian: дубли́ровать
• Spanish: doblar

• Italian: miscelare

dub

1. (music, countable) A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
2. (music, uncountable) A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.
3. (music, uncountable) A trend in music starting in 2009, in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.
4. (slang, countable) A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.
5. (countable) The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; an instance of dubbing.

dub (plural dubs)

1. (UK, dialect) A pool or puddle.

dub (plural dubs)

1. (slang) A twenty dollar sack of marijuana.
2. (slang) A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.

dub (dubs, present participle dubbing; past and past participle dubbed)

1. (obsolete, UK, thieves) To open or close.

dub (plural dubs)

1. (obsolete, UK, thieves) A lock.
2. (obsolete, UK, thieves) A key, especially a master key; a lockpick.

dub (uncountable)

1. (medicine) Initialism of dysfunctional uterine bleeding

dub (plural dubs)

1. (Ireland, slang) A Dubliner.
   • 1993, Mary P. Corcoran, Irish Illegals: Transients Between Two Societies (page 138)

     There is a distinction between Dubliners on the one hand and "rednecks" on the other. […] The Dubs historically went to Liverpool and Birmingham, so they don't have the connections.

   • 1994, Patrick O'Dea, A Class of Our Own: Conversations About Class in Ireland (page 51)

     I did the Pat Kenny show one night and talked about coming from the bottom up, and I got numerous letters, saying to hear somebody with a Dub accent running the brewery was unbelievable.

1. (after a qualification) University of Dublin, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.