cub scout
noun
a member of the junior division (ages 8–10) of the Boy Scouts.
cub scout
Americannoun
Cub Scout
British
noun
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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
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
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
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
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
In our kids’ local Cub Scout troop during Veterans Day week, parents who served in the military were invited to talk to the scouts about what they did while in uniform.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2024
“The Watergate scandal was like a Cub Scout meeting compared to this assault.”
From Washington Times ● Jul. 12, 2022
Without knowing her son might have COVID-related, the lawsuit adds, he attended a Cub Scout camp, church, a festival, a community parade and a car show, “potentially exposing hundreds of local citizens.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2021
I’d played basketball and baseball and done the Cub Scout thing, tried the Boy Scout thing—but I always kept my distance from the other boys.
From "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Saenz
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