rube
an unsophisticated person from a rural area; hick.
Origin of rube
1Other definitions for Rube (2 of 2)
a male given name, form of Reuben.
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How to use rube in a sentence
The old-school way of hating rubes asks us to berate them into giving up their identity out of shame and disgust.
From Smarm To Snark, We’re All Soldiers In The War On Obscurity | James Poulos | December 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTTruth be told, the hope of destroying the rubes by ignoring them vainly ignores the most inescapable fact of our lives.
From Smarm To Snark, We’re All Soldiers In The War On Obscurity | James Poulos | December 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTNow, the ethos of the Internet offers a new way to define rubes: as the people we ought to ignore.
From Smarm To Snark, We’re All Soldiers In The War On Obscurity | James Poulos | December 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTPlaintiffs and jurors seem mostly like rubes shoehorned into the show.
Supersize Me, Your Honor: Liebeck v. McDonald’s and Our Era of Ambition | James Poulos | October 21, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTI sometimes wonder if people like Klein are just hustling the rubes, as they say.
Impeaching Obama May Be Absurd, but That Won’t Stop the Right-Wing Fringe | Michael Tomasky | August 28, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
She said they urge the rubes to bring all the stock they can, because there's plenty of range left.
The Flying U's Last Stand | B. M. BowerIt won't cost much, and I'd rather have those fearless practical men here than all the rubes you could deputise.
The Daughter of Anderson Crow | George Barr McCutcheonShe goes on in my place sometimes—and say, them rubes applauds her as much as me, an' her stunts is baby tricks alongside o' mine.
Polly of the Circus | Margaret Mayo"Sure, any one could tell you were Rubes from the cut of your jibs," grinned the patrolman, while the taxi-cabbies set up a laugh.
The Dreadnought Boys on Battle Practice | John Henry GoldfrapThey were what he, in his former and very recent state of existence, would have called "Rubes."
The Portygee | Joseph Crosby Lincoln
British Dictionary definitions for rube
/ (ruːb) /
US and Canadian slang an unsophisticated countryman
Origin of rube
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