snub

/snʌb/

noun

  1. 1

    A deliberate affront or slight.

    I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub.
  2. 2

    A sudden checking of a cable or rope.

  3. 3

    A knot; a protuberance; a snag.

verb

  1. 1

    To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.

  2. 2

    To turn down; to dismiss.

    He snubbed my offer of help.
  3. 3

    To check; to reprimand.

  4. 4

    To stub out (a cigarette etc).

  5. 5

    To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.

  6. 6

    To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.

adjective

  1. 1

    Conspicuously short.

    a snub-nosed revolver
  2. 2

    Of the nose: flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.

  3. 3

    (of a polyhedron) Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.

verb

  1. 1

    To sob with convulsions.

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