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rubber rooms

rubber rooms is the plural of rubber room.

Meaning of rubber room

Noun

rubber room (plural rubber rooms)

  1. (idiomatic) A cell lined with cushions used for confinement of a mentally disturbed person.
    • "If you kept on worrying about being killed you could end up in a rubber room."2002 December 6, Robert L. Jamieson Jr, “Dec. 7, 1941: From boy to man in one hellish day”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 07 Aug 2014
  2. (idiomatic) Especially in New York City, a temporary workplace assigned to a teacher who is not permitted to teach in a classroom because he or she is under disciplinary review.
    • The film briefly visits a “rubber room” in New York City where idle teachers accused of misconduct wait months and sometimes years for hearings while drawing full salaries.2010 September 23, Stephen Holden, “Movie Review: Waiting for 'Superman' (2010)”, in New York Times, retrieved 07 Aug 2014

Questions about rubber rooms

What is rubber rooms the plural of?
Rubber rooms is the plural of rubber room.

Words near rubber rooms in the dictionary

  1. rubber policemen
  2. rubber rabbitbrush
  3. rubber ring
  4. rubber rings
  5. rubber room
  6. rubber rooms
  7. rubber saw
  8. rubber saws
  9. rubber science
  10. rubber shoe
  11. rubber shoes

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