stub
noun
[ stʌb ]
• the truncated remnant of a pencil, cigarette, or similar-shaped object after use.
• "the ashtray was full of stubs"
• the counterfoil of a cheque, receipt, ticket, or other document.
• "retain your ticket stubs"
stub
verb
• accidentally strike (one's toe) against something.
• "I stubbed my toe, swore, and tripped"
• extinguish (a lighted cigarette) by pressing the lighted end against something.
• "she stubbed out her cigarette in the overflowing ashtray"
• grub up (a plant) by the roots.
• "he was found to have stubbed up a hedge"
Origin:
Old English stub(b) ‘stump of a tree’, of Germanic origin. The verb is first recorded (late Middle English) in sense 3; stub (sense 1 of the verb) (mid 19th century) was originally a US usage.
