Definition of "stub" [stub]

• The usually short end remaining after something bigger has been used up: a pencil stub; a cigarette stub. See Regional Note at stob. (noun)
• Something cut short or arrested in development: a stub of a tail. (noun)
• The part of a check or receipt retained as a record. (noun)
• The part of a ticket returned as a voucher of payment. (noun)
• To pull up (weeds) by the roots. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "How much would a pristine ticket stub from a mooseyak event be worth in 100 yrs?"
• "He taped a pay stub from the $4,000-a-year teaching job into his helmet and, "I used that as a motivation tool, to know I'd burned my bridges.""
• "In all but a couple of cases, the issued stub is present."