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snubs

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noun

  • A deliberate affront or slight.

    "I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub."

  • A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
  • A knot; a protuberance; a snag.

verb

  • To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
  • To turn down; to dismiss.

    "He snubbed my offer of help."

  • To check; to reprimand.
  • To stub out (a cigarette etc).
  • To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
  • To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.

verb

  • To sob with convulsions.

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