chub : Idioms & Phrases

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bermuda chub

  • noun food and game fish around Bermuda and Florida; often follow ships
    Kyphosus sectatrix; rudderfish.
WordNet

Chub mackerel

  • noun small mackerel found nearly worldwide
    tinker; Scomber japonicus.
WordNet
  • (Zoöl.), a species of mackerel (Scomber colias) in some years found in abundance on the Atlantic coast, but absent in others; called also bull mackerel, thimble-eye, and big-eye mackerel.
Webster 1913

Chub sucker

  • (Zoöl.), a fresh-water fish of the United States (Erimyzon sucetta); called also creekfish.
Webster 1913

chub-faced

Chub"-faced` adjective
Definitions
  1. Having a plump, short face.
Webster 1913

River chub

  • (Zoöl.), the hornyhead and allied species of fresh-water fishes.
Webster 1913

sea chub

  • noun schooling fishes mostly of Indian and western Pacific oceans; two species in western Atlantic
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Silver chub

  • (Zoöl.), the fallfish.
Webster 1913