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rubbering up

rubbering up is the present participle and gerund of rubber up.

Meaning of rubber up

Verb

rubber up (third-person singular simple present rubbers up, present participle rubbering up, simple past and past participle rubbered up)

  1. (slang) To put on a condom.

Questions about rubbering up

What is rubbering up the present participle and gerund of?
Rubbering up is the present participle and gerund of rubber up.

Words near rubbering up in the dictionary

  1. rubberier
  2. rubberiest
  3. rubberily
  4. rubberiness
  5. rubbering
  6. rubbering up
  7. rubberisation
  8. rubberise
  9. rubberised
  10. rubberises
  11. rubberish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rubbering up (page history and authors); rubber up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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