verb. phr. (colloquial).—To hand over; pay; fork out. [Cf., provincial DUBS = money.] Fr., foncer; abouler. Formerly, to lock up or secure; to button one’s pocket.
1840. The Comic Almanack, p. 237. Come, DUB UP! roars a third: and I don’t mind telling you, in confidence, that I was so frightened that I took out the sovereign and gave it.
