See chub in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1999, Walter Soroka, Fundamentals of packaging technology:",
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"ref": "2017, Piper Rayne, Sexy Beast:",
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"ref": "2018, J.R. Hamilton, Low: Charlie's Drunkalogue:",
"text": "The DA was a hot young woman who gave me a chub when she finally showed up in a business skirt with a slit in the side, after I had sat around waiting for her for three hours.",
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"ref": "2019, Chad Stroup, Sexy Leper:",
"text": "He briefly wondered what Carey might look like naked in his new womanly body, then realized his thoughts were in bad form, thankfully before he had a chance to get an inappropriate chub.",
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"ref": "1998, Center for Public Integrity, Safety last: the politics of e. coli and other food-borne killers:",
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"ref": "1999, Walter Soroka, Fundamentals of packaging technology:",
"text": "Chub packaging is versatile. Package sizes can range from miniature tubes up to 150-mm diameter and 1220 mm in length (6-in. diameter and 48 in. long). Virtually any pumpable paste can be filled into a chub pack",
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"ref": "2001, John R. Romans, The meat we eat:",
"text": "A typical gelbwurst chub is 24 inches long and about 2V2 inches thick.",
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"ref": "2004, Alberta Beef Producers, I Love Alberta Beef, page 15:",
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"ref": "2007, Greg M. Burnham, Predicting pathogen growth and death in raw meat and poultry, page 86:",
"text": "A time/temperature history for either the product (4.5 kg chubs of coarse-ground beef) or the storage environment ... After inoculation, the surface of each 4.5-kg coarse-ground beef chub contained six samples inoculated with E. coli",
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"ref": "2009 May 30, James C[ourtright] McKinley Jr., “The Talk, and the Talk, and the Talk, of Austin”, in The New York Times (Image caption section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-26:",
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"ref": "2011 January 14, Richard Whittaker, Wells Dunbar, Lee Nichols, Jordan Smith, “This Way to the Big Top!”, in The Austin Chronicle, Austin, T.X.: Austin Chronicle Corp., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-05-17:",
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