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Meanings of tubby in English

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Short and plump.

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Usage of tubby in English
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Thus tubby-like proteins may be generally involved in transciliary trafficking of GPCRs.
Pubmed
2
We directly examined a role for tubby in ciliary trafficking in vivo.
Pubmed
3
A tubby guy operating the boom microphone squawked into his Nextel walkie-talkie.
Wanted
4
A shortish, tubby man whose figure added ten years to his age.
The Triumph of John Kars: A Story of the Yukon
5
She shouldn't care if I get a little tubby in the middle!
The Guardian
6
He was a tubby, cheerful-looking guy, maybe seventeen or eighteen years old.
Come out tonight
7
The risks of rising household debt;Tackling the problem of tubby toddlers.
Radio NZ
8
The tubby Spanish officer departed, taking the case and other items with him.
Operation mincemeat: how a dead man and a bizarre plan fooled th...
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The tubby little man felt the edge of irony in the quiet voice.
The Yukon Trail: A Tale of the North
10
Her husband gave a glance at his tubby little figure in the glass.
Dawn
11
The ones he'd seen in the bog, including a tubby little dark-haired boy.
Fiendish deeds
12
But, even when tubby, Rafe seemed like a very different class of actor.
The Irish Times
13
Steve was a short, tubby man of African appearance, about thirty years old.
A week in december
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He looked at the funny, tubby, jaunty, would-be smart, kneeling figure.
Deadham Hard: A Romance
15
A tubby, barefoot man with broken teeth and wild eyes opened the door.
The Guardian
16
The dad was short and balding and the mum was mousy-haired and tubby.
Rivers of London
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