Definitions for rubes

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rubes rube

Spelling: [roob]

IPA: /rub/

Rubes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in rubes (bersu).

Definitions for rubes

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 rubes

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

Examples for rubes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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