Skip to content
OneKitly

pub

nounverbnounnounverbnouncommon in dialogue

  • United States//pʌb//
  • //pʊb//

A public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic, may be bought and consumed, also providing food and sometimes entertainment such as live music or television.

noun

  1. 1

    A public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic, may be bought and consumed, also providing food and sometimes entertainment such as live music or television.

    Reg liked a chat about old times and we used to go and have a chinwag in the pub.

    From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.

Etymology

Clipping of public house.

verb

  1. 1

    informalTo go to one or more public houses.

noun

  1. 1

    slangA public server.

    Well there's private servers and then there's pubs that do their best to make sure everyone plays fair. The second option will be a lot easier to find.

Etymology

Clipping of public server.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of publicationClipping of publication.

    registered pubs

Etymology

Clipping of publication.

verb

  1. 1

    informalto publish

Etymology

Clipping of publish.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of publisherClipping of publisher.

    Pubs say it's out of print, but it was supposed to have been reissued.

Etymology

Clipping of publisher.

Forms

plural
pubs
past tense
pubbed
past participle
pubbed
present participle
pubbing
third person singular
pubs
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).