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Meanings of rube in English
Usage of rube in English
1
Now, what in hell did I take on this Yeager rube for?
2
They're never 'appy unless they're kickin' some poor rube over the guy-ropes.
3
More uncomfortably, former friends attacked Crookes's character, calling him a rube, a shill.
4
It's hard to imagine a more rube-goldbergian way of connecting with another person.
5
Active accomplice, or unwitting rube, Natalya's story was the story of this abduction.
6
He fell for it like a rube for the tapped-wire stuff.
7
That rube there is the father of the girl you came to kidnap.
8
My reply was slightly wounded, Please, I'm not a complete rube.
9
I'm only a rube, an' things come hard for me, but I'm a-learnin'.
10
At least, that's what the dumb rube is supposed to think.
11
In another ten years he'd have been just another rube.
12
A rube in a comic collar ambling aimlessly about Halsted Street or State downtown.
13
Well, pretty soon I pretty near run out of rube spots to take in.
14
It was the most middle-western, rube thing you ever saw.
15
One way or the other, her rube life is over.
16
The rube made a show of being a judicious shopper.
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