Definition of "nubbins" []

• Plural form of nubbin. (noun)

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• "John is a man so alienated from himself that he sets out to cut off his arms with a power-saw and achieve the perfect "nubbins" he once imagined he saw on a Vietnam veteran."
• "Three of these "nubbins," which had been preserved, I saw many years after the war."
• "She raises a few "nubbins" of corn for table consumption, rice, fruits, yams and plantains."