<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a short projecting part.</li><li>a short remaining piece, as of a pencil, candle, or cigar.</li><li>(in a checkbook, receipt book, etc.) the inner end of each leaf, for keeping a record of the content of the part filled out and torn away.</li><li>the returned portion of a ticket.</li><li>the end of a fallen tree, shrub, or plant left fixed in the ground; stump.</li><li>something having a short, blunt shape, especially a short-pointed, blunt pen.</li><li>stub nail.</li><li>something having the look of incomplete or stunted growth, as a horn of an animal.</li><li>Bridge. a part-score.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) stubbed, stubbing.</li><li>to strike accidentally against a projecting object: I stubbed my toe against the step.</li><li>to extinguish the burning end of (a cigarette or cigar) by crushing it against a solid object (often followed by out): He stubbed out the cigarette in the ashtray.</li><li>to clear of stubs, as land.</li><li>to dig up by the roots; grub up (roots).</li></ul>