Definitions for Rube

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Spelling: [roob]

IPA: /rub/

Rube is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in Rube (beru).

Definitions for Rube

noun

1. an unsophisticated person from a rural area; hick.
2. a male given name, form of Reuben.
3. Arthur Joseph, 1908–90, U.S. jurist, statesman, and diplomat: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1962–65; ambassador to the U.N. 1965–68.
4. Reuben Lucius ("Rube") 1883–1970, U.S. cartoonist, whose work often depicts deviously complex and impractical inventions.

Origin of Rube

1895-1900; generic use of Rube; compare earlier use of Reuben in same sense

Examples for Rube

Albert's private appraisal of "Issy" was that the latter was another funny rube.

Such rube Goldberg–like coincidences will not prevail against the Syria-Iran axis.

We were away before daylight, and I never saw Uncle rube again.

"Daddy gived me to Uncle rube," was her only explanation of her being there.

rube Goldberg legislation is most dangerous when you do not have buy-in from the public and the opposition party.

It was only the untiring care of rube and his wife, and Seth, that pulled her through.

A lazy off-season afternoon in Palmer's house is like being trapped in a rube Goldberg cartoon.

But Penrhyn could borrow a rube outfit and escape from a farm.

He knew how to pin a rube against the Wall and make him say "Yes."

I wonder if rube's first wife's mother has come from Moderation?