dubs

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of dub.

   Pirated dubs of the film appeared online within hours of the premiere.

   The DJ wove three vintage dubs into a single seamless mix.

   Note

   Only the countable meanings of the noun take this plural. These include blows or pokes, poorly executed shots, awkward people in old slang, and especially instrumental remixes with the vocals stripped out. The reggae style and the bass-distortion trend that began in 2009 are uncountable. So a DJ plays dub as a genre, or plays several dubs, meaning individual tracks. A separate clipping of double gives the spoken name for W.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present indicative of dub.

   A small studio downtown dubs foreign dramas for streaming services.

   Tradition dictates that the monarch dubs each new knight with a sword.

   Note

   A form that almost always arrives with an object: the monarch dubs a knight. In the naming and deeming meanings it usually takes two, the person and the label, with no "as" between them. Older craft uses sit alongside these: a carpenter dubs timber with an adze, and a cloth-worker dubs fabric with teasels to raise its nap.

   The local paper dubs him the best baker in town.

   The king dubs the squire a knight before the whole court.

3. 3
   nouncolloquialuncountable

   A colloquial name for the Latin-script letter W, often heard when an address is read aloud.

   Giving the website over the phone, she rattled off three dubs before the company name.

   The license plate had two dubs in a row, which made it easy to remember.

   Note

   Speakers clip the letter name double-u, three syllables for a single letter, down to its first. The short form turns up wherever W has to be said quickly or repeatedly, as in reading out a web address. It stays colloquial, so in careful spelling, such as dictating a name for an official record, the full double-u is the safer choice.

4. 4
   noununcountable

   An image board post celebrated for having a post number that ends in two repeated digits.

   The thread erupted when his reply landed dubs ending in two sevens.

   She screenshotted her dubs and posted them as proof of good luck.

   Similardoubles

   Note

   Image-board slang built on the same clipping of double behind the spoken letter W. Here it means doubled final digits, so a post number ending in 22 or 77 counts. Its signature construction is a dare, "dubs decides," in which a poster promises to let the next post number settle what they do. On 4chan and 8chan threads, the stakes have sometimes been alarmingly real.

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