rubber-faced
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of rubber-faced
First recorded in 1960–65
Example Sentences
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The rubber-faced comic whose long career in theater, movies and television was capped by his “F Troop” role as zany Cpl.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 5, 2022
I felt like Mr Bean, the rubber-faced TV character played by Rowan Atkinson, when I first visited the Awa people over a decade ago.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2021
So far, Jim Carrey’s Biden not an impression of Joe Biden, it’s a reminder that Jim Carrey’s rubber-faced mugging is funniest when the sole point of the joke is “Jim Carrey’s rubber-faced mugging.”
From Slate • Oct. 4, 2020
Devine, the energetic, rubber-faced love-child of Jerry Lewis and Jack Black, brings his zany energy to this otherwise tepid affair.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2018
The tingling of the batsman's fingers which might result could be neutralised by the use of a rubber-faced bat.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, July 1, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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