Meaning & use
dub
To give someone or something an informal name or nickname, or to replace a film's original audio with another language.
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Fans quickly dubbed the rookie 'The Rocket' after his blazing first race.
The studio hired voice actors to dub the anime series into English.
A note on using this word
Dub takes a direct object plus a name, as in "they dubbed him captain"; the film sense means replacing spoken dialogue, not adding subtitles.
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