Definition of stubs:
(n) :
A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
(n) :
Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
(n) :
The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.
(n) :
(programming) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
(n) :
(wiki jargon) An article providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
(n) :
(computing, middleware) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.