cub
n 1: an awkward and inexperienced youth [syn: {greenhorn}, {rookie}]
2: a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) [syn: {lad},
{laddie}, {sonny}, {sonny boy}]
3: the young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or
wolf or lion [syn: {young carnivore}]
v : give birth to cubs, as of bears, for example