3-Letter Words That Start With: BUB

• An alcoholic malt liquor, especially beer.

• A woman's breast.

• A term of familiar address; bubba; bubby.

• A young brother; a little boy; a familiar term of address for a small boy.

• A baby.

• Champagne; bubbly.

• A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.

• A small spherical cavity in a solid material.

• (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.

• Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.

• A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.

• The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed.

• An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.

• Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.

• A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.

• The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.

• A laugh.

• A Greek.

• Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.

• The point in a poker tournament when the last player without a prize loses all their chips and leaves the game, leaving only players that are going to win prizes. (e.g., if the last remaining 9 players win prizes, then the point when the 10th player leaves the tournament)

• A group of people who are in quarantine together.

• To throw out in bubbles; to bubble.