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Snub

/snʌb/

A deliberate affront or slight.

📖 Definitions of "Snub"

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).

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.

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