dub

A nickname for the US $20 bill. I don't get paid till next week—any chance you can loan me a double saw? Hey, we might have to put back some of these groceries—I forgot my wallet, and I only have a double sawbuck on me. A: "Are those kids seriously charging a double sawbuck for a cup of lemonade?" B: "Would you put your glasses on? Their sign says $2, not $20!"

To add a new recording over previously recorded material. A noun or pronoun can be used between "dub" and "in." If that part of his vocal is garbled, we can just dub in a section of a different take. I'm sorry, but there was a lot of static on the last take, so we need to dub you in again. Read your script slowly and carefully because we can't dub in another version.

To add a new recording over previously recorded material. A noun or pronoun can be used between "dub" and "over." If that part of his vocal is garbled, we can just dub it over with a section from a different take. I'm sorry, but there was a lot of static on the last take, so we need to dub over it. Read your script slowly and carefully because we can't dub over it with another version.

A way of pronouncing "www" (the initialism for "World Wide Web"), as precedes an Internet address. A: "OK, so the address is dub-dub-dub dot—" B: "Hold on, let me grab a pen." Do I need to include the dub-dub-dub when I type in a website address these days? "Dub-dub-dub Google dot com," as she would say, is pretty much the only site Grandma knows how to access.

old-fashioned To fail to do what one is supposed to do; to bungle or botch something. Unfortunately, he is notorious for flubbing the dub in similar roles of authority. Why on earth they would put him in charge is beyond me. Everyone knew her political campaign was over after she flubbed the dub so spectacularly in the 1964 Senate election. If I want the boss to seriously consider me for the promotion, I know I can't flub the dub on this project.

to mix a new sound recording into an old one. The actor messed up his lines, but they dubbed the correct words in later. They dubbed in his lines.

to record a replacement sound over another sound in a recording. They had dubbed over all the dialog in the movie. It doesn't matter if you say a word wrong on the tape. We can dub it over.

Inf. to fail to do the right thing. Martin is flubbing the dub with the fund-raising campaign. Please don't flub the dub this time.

To loaf or evade duty; also, to bungle or botch. This term dates from the first half of the 1900s and became widely current during World War II. Early on it also was slang for male masturbation, but that sense has not survived. John Hersey used it in G.I. Laughs (1943), “Wanders from barracks to barracks . . . generally flubbing his dub.” And D. Stagg (in Glory Jumpers (1959), “The Air Corps flubbed the dub again and scattered the drop.”