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Cubby


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Cubbyhole

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ford's motorsport supremo Walter Hayes had fallen into conversation with the film producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, with the result that AMR suddenly found itself building a handful of Ford Zephyr-engined cars for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968).
  • (2) He dazzled each of them with a string of Hollywood names, name-dropping the likes of Oliver Reed, Julie Christie and Aaron Spelling to reel in the wannabe stars, while telling one she had to sleep with Cubby Broccoli to land a Bond role and another she should have sex with David Bowie to land a part in the film Labyrinth, in which he starred.
  • (3) At San Francisco’s first fully automated restaurant, meals appear in little glass cubbies, just 90 seconds after customers order and pay on wall-mounted iPads.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Computerized cubbies at Eatsa, San Francisco.
  • (5) The company admits it employs a small kitchen staff, and one employee is present in the front of the house, answering questions about how to order and dodging questions about what’s going on behind the wall of magic cubbies.
  • (6) The moment before the meal appears, the see-through display screen that fronts the cubbies goes black for the few seconds when you might catch sight of the hand that feeds you.

Tubby


Definition:

  • (a.) Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Duke’s ancestor Hugh Lupus – the king’s head huntsman or grand veneur , a tubby man nicknamed gros veneur , from which derived the family surname – came across with William the Conqueror and was granted a chunk of Cheshire to protect the region from the Welsh.
  • (2) But marketing material won’t be enough to give you a proper understanding, warns Eleanor Tubby, graduate recruitment officer at Bird and Bird.
  • (3) The predicted location for a human homolog of tubby is HSA 11p15.
  • (4) Tubby Reddy, chief executive of the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic committee, told the Associated Press: “As he stands right now, he’s free [to compete].” Pistorius potentially faces up to 15 years in prison after being convicted of the South African equivalent of manslaughter, but could receive a suspended sentence and avoid jail altogether when he returns to court on 13 October.
  • (5) Several recessively inherited forms of obesity exist including the obese mouse, the diabetes mouse, fatty rat, the fat mouse, tubby mouse and the corpulent rat.
  • (6) His campaign speeches are broadcast from chilly, overcast London to the Karachi faithful, many of them women who hold portraits of their tubby, moustachioed leader.
  • (7) During his years with Real Madrid, an increasingly tubby but still marvellously effective Puskas struck up a famous partnership with the Argentine centre-forward, the domineering Alfredo Di Stefano.
  • (8) Marcus Christenson 75: Ezequiel Lavezzi, Paris St-Germain, Argentina; age 27, forward Despite all scientific regimes available to the modern footballer, thank goodness there is still room in the game for a player nicknamed El Pocho, or Tubby.
  • (9) Best warning Brazil: "Out-sized" Goias striker "Tubby" Walter , warning Flamengo he would "lie down and roll over them" in the Brazilian Cup.
  • (10) Fly through the future North of the Gherkin, a tower nicknamed the Can of Ham for its odd tubby form is currently being built.
  • (11) Beyond that, no one outside of CBS Television City has a clue what to expect when the “tubby kid”, as David Letterman called him , starts beaming into US living rooms.
  • (12) It has been described as a "tubby spaniel" by its admirers and as a "destructive nocturnal rat" by its critics.
  • (13) A tubby, barefoot man with broken teeth and wild eyes opened the door.
  • (14) This report describes the development of obesity syndromes in mice caused by two autosomal recessive mutations, fat (fat), located on chromosome 8, and tubby (tub), located on chromosome 7.

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