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View synonyms for rub out

rub out

verb

  1. to remove or be removed with a rubber

  2. slang,  to murder

  3. Australian rules football to suspend (a player)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

Obliterate or erase by, or as if by, rubbing. For example, Bill was so busy rubbing out the old markings that he forgot to put in new ones . [Mid-1600s]

Murder, kill, as in They threatened to rub him out if he didn't pay up . [ Slang ; mid-1800s]

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