noun
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A deliberate affront or slight.
example
I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub.
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A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
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A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
verb
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To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
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To turn down; to dismiss.
example
He snubbed my offer of help.
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To check; to reprimand.
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To stub out (a cigarette etc).
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To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
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To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
adjective
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Conspicuously short.
example
a snub-nosed revolver
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Of the nose: flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.
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(of a polyhedron) Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.