noun • An alcoholic malt liquor, especially beer.
• A woman's breast.
• A term of familiar address; bubba; bubby.
• A young brother; a little boy; a familiar term of address for a small boy.
• A baby.
• Champagne; bubbly.
• A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
• A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
• (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
• Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
• A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
• The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed.
• An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
• Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.
• A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
• The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
• A laugh.
• A Greek.
• Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
• The point in a poker tournament when the last player without a prize loses all their chips and leaves the game, leaving only players that are going to win prizes. (e.g., if the last remaining 9 players win prizes, then the point when the 10th player leaves the tournament)
• A group of people who are in quarantine together.
