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🎟️ A ticket part ✏️ A small piece 🦶 To hit your toe 💻 A test placeholder 💻 To fake in code 🚬 To put out
to stub

to stub

1 4.0
To press a cigarette or small flame against a hard surface to put it out
  • verb
  • /stʌb/
translation icon : apagar (un cigarrillo)
  • After finishing his cigarette, he decided to stub it out on the pavement.
  • stub out a cigarette
  • stub out a smoke
  • stub out a butt

The Mexican ladies football team, who did Joey Barton stub a cigar out on?

Examples

  • Kat uses the moment to stub out Mandella's cigarette.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Tomazo stubs out his cigarette and looks towards the church doors.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Unless you want to stub cigarettes out on my arm.

    High Fidelity (2000)

  • Chain lights another smoke, stubs out his old one.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • As soon as Rocky sees us, he stubs out his cigarette and turns off the car radio.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Devaney, who has been sitting alone in the living room, stubs out a cigarette and stands to meet him.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Dil checks her watch and stubs out a cigarette.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Byrd rises, stubs out his cigarette in his hand.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Grimsrud takes the cigarette from his mouth and stubs it in his ashtray.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Peter stands, stubs out his smoke, drops a few crumpled bills on the bar, and grabs his hat.

    Fiction book (2001)

Synonyms

to snuff
vsto stub
31 5.7

To put out a small flame by covering or pinching it

relies on pressing against a surface rather than pinching or covering
to stub out
vsto stub
  • Informal
3 5.3

To press the burning end of a cigarette against a surface to put it out

is the single word form instead of a two word phrasal verb
to press out
vsto stub
3.4

To stop something burning by crushing it

uses pressing the end firmly against a hard surface instead of crushing

Antonyms

to ignite
66 4.0

To make something start burning

Phrasal Verbs

to stub out
  • Informal
3 5.3

To press the burning end of a cigarette against a surface to put it out

to stub out
  • Specialized
7.4

To replace a function in a program with a simple fake version for testing

Compounds

ticket stub
10 1.4

A small piece you keep from a ticket after you enter to show proof

check stub
  • US
2 4.4

A small paper record you keep after you tear off a check showing the payment

stub nail
7.4

A short thick metal spike used to hold things when length is not needed

How Thorough

to douse
20 5.1
to extinguish
23 4.4
to snuff out
6 4.7
to stub
1 4.0

Surface Forms

stub infinitive
stubbed past
stubbed past participle
stubbing present participle
stubs third person singular

Etymology

Stub (verb, to put out a cigarette) can be pictured as pressing the small end like a little stump against a hard surface until it stops, which is why to stub a cigarette means to put it out.