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rubout

[ ruhb-out ]

noun

, Slang.
  1. a murder or assassination.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of rubout1

1925–30, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase rub out
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Example Sentences

Anthony spends time making house calls with Harold Edmond, an exterminator with the city’s “rat rubout” program, who says you will find rats in places where people have the least education and the fewest resources — “no dreams, no aspirations, just surviving.”

“It was murder. … It was a rubout,” Gapay said Tuesday at a Manila airbase where the bodies of three of the soldiers were flown.

A woman in a blonde wig opened fire in a busy Mexico City restaurant this week, killing two alleged Israeli mobsters in what police suspect was a gangland rubout, according to reports.

Notorious gangster Al Capone’s Chicago home went on the market for a steal this week, coinciding with the 90th anniversary of the infamous mob rubout known as the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.

He was believed responsible for the 1929 mob rubout that became known as the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.

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