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rubby

rubby noun: rubbing alcohol.

Noun

rubby (plural rubbies)

  1. (Canada, slang) rubbing alcohol.
  2. (Canada, slang) A drunkard.
    • […] the rubbies crawling drunk and the Indian whores old women at twenty. The tourists obviously saw something else.1974, Tom Ardies, Kosygin is Coming, page 122
    Synonyms:
    dubby, rubadub, rubby-dub

Synonyms of rubby

Forms of rubby

pluralrubbies

Questions about rubby

What does rubby mean?
Rubby means rubbing alcohol.
What part of speech is rubby?
Rubby is a noun.
What is the plural of rubby?
The plural of rubby is rubbies.

Words near rubby in the dictionary

  1. rubboard
  2. rubboardist
  3. rubboardists
  4. rubboards
  5. Rubbos
  6. rubby
  7. rubby-dub
  8. rubby-dubby
  9. rubby-dubs
  10. rubbydub
  11. rubbydubs

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