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Chubb is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adam Chubb (born 1981), American basketball player. Andrew Chubb (born 1975), Australian pianist, composer, teacher, and lecturer.
The origins of the Chubb Corporation date back to 1882 when Thomas Caldecot Chubb and his son Percy opened their marine underwriting business in the seaport district of New York City.
Jay-Z. Jay-Z is a rapper who can be highly sophisticated but prefers to keep things simple. This genuine skill allows him to focus on honing and communicating his message. No other rapper has had the same level of consistency as Jay-Z.
“Some people cover up because they might be doing stuff on the roads,” S1 tells me. “Some people cover up their face because their family don't know they're rapping or in a gang. But also, I've been around a load of yutes who wear masks and balaclavas, and they've got no participation in madness.
One of the first rappers at the beginning of the hip hop period, at the end of the 1970s, was also hip hop's first DJ, DJ Kool Herc. Herc, a Jamaican immigrant, started delivering simple raps at his parties, which some claim were inspired by the Jamaican tradition of toasting.
A weasel is a sneaky and sly person. Your weasel of a friend has a habit of "forgetting" his wallet every time he goes out to dinner with you. You can call someone who cheats and lies a weasel, or you can use the word literally, to refer to the small furry mammal called a weasel.
Tiny Tim (plural Tiny Tims) A poor disabled boy whose death is ultimately averted by Ebenezer Scrooge in the classic tale A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. quotations ▼ (historical, military, countable) A United States rocket, used in World War II and the Korean War.
The first idea is that the rhyme is written in Cockney rhyming slang – a popular way of speaking in Victorian London's East End, which people used to disguise what they were saying. In this idea, 'weasel' means 'coat' and 'pop' is all about pawning possessions (which you can find out about lower down).
The Pocket Weasel is an original fuzzbox with a highly distinctive wah-like tone control. I took the idea of the Harmonic Energizer with added fuzz combo that we build as 'Do the Weasel Stomp' and used a simpler workalike circuit.
Weasel words is an Americanism that paints a vivid picture of cowardly deception. Just as someone can be “smart like a fox,” the weasel's sinewy body and quick movements give us a metaphor for cunning, sneaky behavior.
By the late 1500s you might be called duck or ducky as an affectionate term. We humans have liked ducks for many centuries. Duckys was also used as slang for breasts by King Henry VIII in a letter to Anne Boleyn in 1536.
A younger bisexual or gay man who may have effeminate characteristics. The term can also be used by anyone who wishes to distinguish from heterosexual or heteronormative identities.
a small notch, groove, chip, or the like, cut into or existing in something. a hollow place produced in an edge or surface, as of a dish, by breaking, chipping, or the like: I didn't notice those tiny nicks in the vase when I bought it.
1989: Queens duo MC Serch and Pete Nice debut as 3rd Bass, the first white rap act for whom whiteness is not at least in part an uproarious crossover gimmick.
MC Sha-Rock was the first woman to rap on national television in 1981, but hip-hop's double standards have left her legacy as the first female MC buried.
With his dominant album sales, YouTube views and social-media scores, Eminem takes the title as the current King of Hip-Hop. Unlike our Queen of Pop ranking, which Lady Gaga took in a walk, Marshall Mathers's win was somewhat closer – note the fairly tight point range among our top three.