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  cub scout

  noun

  a member of the junior division (ages 8–10) of the Boy Scouts.
• Cub Scout
  Cub Scout

  noun

  a member of a junior branch (for those aged 8–11 years) of the Scout Association

cub scout

American  

noun

1. (sometimes initial capital letters) a member of the junior division (ages 8–10) of the Boy Scouts.

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Cub Scout British  

noun

1. a member of a junior branch (for those aged 8–11 years) of the Scout Association

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Born in Brooklyn in 1941, Gale’s music career started when he played bugle for his cub scout brigade.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2020

According to the paper, cub scout leader Ingrid Loyau-Kennett asked him: "Would you like to give me what you have in your hands?"

From BBC ● May 23, 2013

Some of them would scarcely faze a cub scout, and there is so much hiking in fog and snow, up hill and through bog, that Frodo seems at times like a mythical postman.

From Time Magazine Archive

Without warning, I went from being an active New York kid who loved baseball and being a cub scout to an invalid, confined to bed and isolated.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mowgli in his latest incarnation is a rather engaging and innocent little boy, more like a cub scout than a cub.

From Time Magazine Archive

Malibu’s Cub Scout Pack 224 lost its pinewood derby track — the testing grounds for a highly anticipated annual Scouting tradition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025

“He has no experience leading an organization, no less a Cub Scout pack,” Brunner said.

From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2024

This common area includes tot lots, gazebos, a small pond and the creek, which Fox Mill’s Cub Scout Pack 159 helps maintain.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 25, 2023

“The Watergate scandal was like a Cub Scout meeting compared to this assault.”

From Washington Times ● Jul. 12, 2022

She is greeted by Cub Scout Troop 163, holding a big American flag.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti