rubbers

Noun

rubber (usually uncountable, plural rubbers)

1. (countable, uncountable, usually) Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon biopolymer of isoprene.

   Synonyms:

   natural rubber

2. (countable, uncountable, usually) Natural rubber or any of various synthetic materials with similar properties as natural rubber.
3. (Australia, Brunei, India, New Zealand, UK, countable) An eraser.
   • For example, they may use paddle pop sticks, hand span, pencils, rubbers, mathematics equipment (i.e. base 10 material) or anything else the teacher can find to measure the lengths of nominated objects.2006, Lisa Kervin, Research for Educators, page 148
4. (Canada, US, countable, slang, usually) A condom, especially an external condom.
   • And the rubbers you hide / In your top left pocket1979, “At Home He's A Tourist”, in Entertainment!, performed by Gang of Four

   Synonyms:

   condom, cum catcher

5. (countable, usually) Someone or something which rubs.
   • What perplexity plagues the chin-rubber in the foreground and what so discourages the man leaning on the lamp post? And to what doom is the large man at right moving? Photographer Cowherd has no answers.1949 July 11, LIFE, page 21
   1. (countable, uncountable, usually) One who rubs down horses.

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