1899 17 Oct. 3/3 I ought to say a word, too, in praise of the good conduct and sobriety of the ‘Dubs’.
1916 K. J. Barrett Diary 19 June in (1921) 54 This afternoon the Dubs relieved us, but not until they had sustained several casualties by whiz-bangs.
2018 T. Kinlock ii. 22 Godley joined the Dubs at Wellington Barracks in Mullingar, eighty kilometres west of Dublin.