subs. (old).—1.  A fool: see BUFFLE and CABBAGE-HEAD.

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  1632–74.  MILTON, Letters on Education. Our dullest and laziest youth, our stocks and STUBS.

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  2.  (American).—A counterfoil of a cheque. Hence STUB-BOOK = a book of counterfoils of cheques or other duplicate records.

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  1886.  Annual Report of the [U.S.] Secretary of Treasury, 700. The filed STUB-BOOKS of stamps.

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  1896.  LILLARD, Poker Stories, 136. Miss Hill’s attorney … endeavoured to have produced in court, in evidence of Senator Sharon’s maintenance of the plaintiff, the millionaire’s check STUBS.

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  Verb. (Felsted).—To kick a football about.

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