One of the first real sentences uttered by our granddaughter sitting on my knee was, "I wub you, Papa," which I interpreted to mean, "I love you, Papa." 2005, Willard Scott, If I Knew It Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First, Hyperion Books, →ISBN, page 104:
Just as a glorious game-winning homer can erase our memory of 812 dull innings, the sublime moment when our 3-year-old looks up from the mess she is making with her mashed potatoes and says, "I wub you, Daddy," can erase eight hours of no, not yet, not now and stop asking. 2006 June 11, Daniel Gilbert, “Does Fatherhood Make You Happy?”, in Time:
“I wub you, Mommie,” he'd say over and over. 2003, Alice Kennedy, Extraordinary Circumstances, 1st Books Library (2003), page 219
wobble bass, a style of bass synthesizer heavily deployed by dubstep and drum and bass artists
Though the audience wasn’t instantly sold on Datsik’s opening wubs, the cheer that erupted when the DJ segued into Skrillex’s remix of “Levels” further shook the already-vibrating venue. 2012 February 24, Allegra Dimperio, “Grimy chills, champagne thrills on Deadmeat Tour”, in The Badger Herald, volume 43, number 93, University of Wisconsin, page 5:
It's an impressive, almost overwhelming synthesis of commercial influences, including, in their monster hit Radioactive, some rather mannered dubstep wubs. 2013 April 9, Graeme Virtue, “Imagine Dragons – review”, in The Guardian:
For the uninitiated, a wub (or wobble bass, its technical name) is that distinctive long bass note that is “torn” or “bent” rhythmically or…wubbed, and is one of the distinctive features of dubstep music. 2012 February 2, Jimbo Ivy, “Lucky's Live!”, in The Hype Weekly, number 23, page 5:
In a repeat of the "electronica" boom of the 1990s, when the music of artists like Moby, Dirty Vegas, and the Crystal Method became inescapable on prime-time TV, dubstep is steadily wubbing its way into the commercial landscape. 2012 May 8, Philip Sherburne, “Dubstep Selling Candy, Helping to Stop Human Trafficking”, in Spin:
For the uninitiated, a wub (or wobble bass, its technical name) is that distinctive long bass note that is “torn” or “bent” rhythmically or…wubbed, and is one of the distinctive features of dubstep music. 2012 February 2, Jimbo Ivy, “Lucky's Live!”, in The Hype Weekly, number 23, page 5:
[…] but enlisting Skrillex to wub all over “Wild For The Night” is a head-scratching move. 2013 January 15, Erik van Rheenen, “Overshadowed: A$AP Rocky's featured artists outshine him on own his own album”, in The Daily Orange, Syracuse University, page 13: