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"dub" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often nickname (8 letters).
Definitions
provide (movies) with a soundtrack of a foreign language
Word origin
From Middle English dubben, from Old English dubbian (“to knight by striking with a sword, dub”) from Old French adober (“to equip with arms; adorn”) (also 11th century, Modern French adouber), both from Proto-West Germanic *dubbōn, from Proto-Germanic *dub- (“to hit, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“plug, peg, wedge”).
Used in a sentence
“You promiſt Knighthood to our forward ſonne, / Vnſheath your ſword, and dub him preſently.”
“It occurred to him that he had not been dubbed a knight, and that according to the law of chivalry he neither could nor ought to bear arms against any knight; […].”
“A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Give a nickname”3 letters
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