Definitions for rubs

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rubs rub

Spelling: [ruhb]

IPA: /rʌb/

Rubs is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in rubs (brsu).

Definitions for rubs

noun

1. an act or instance of rubbing:
2. something that annoys or irritates one's feelings, as a sharp criticism, a sarcastic remark, or the like:
3. an annoying experience or circumstance.
4. an obstacle, impediment, or difficulty:
5. a rough or abraded area caused by rubbing.

Idioms

1. rub it in, Informal. to emphasize or reiterate something unpleasant in order to tease or annoy:
2. rub salt in / into someone's wounds. salt1 (def 23).
3. rub the wrong way, to irritate; offend; annoy:
4. rub up, British Informal. to refresh one's memory of (a subject, language, etc.).

Verb phrases

1. rub down, to smooth off, polish, or apply a coating to: to give a massage to.
2. rub off on, to become transferred or communicated to by example or association:
3. rub out, to obliterate; erase. Slang. to murder:

verb (used with object)

1. to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing:
2. to move (something) back and forth or with a rotary motion, as against or along another surface:
3. to spread or apply (something) with pressure and friction over something else or a person:
4. to move (two things) with pressure and friction over or back and forth over each other (often followed by together):
5. to mark, polish, force, move, etc. (something) by pressure and friction (often followed by over, in, or into).
6. to remove by pressure and friction; erase (often followed by off or out).

verb (used without object)

1. to exert pressure and friction on something.
2. to move with pressure against something.
3. to admit of being rubbed in a specified manner:
4. Chiefly British. to proceed, continue in a course, or keep going with effort or difficulty (usually followed by on, along, or through):

Origin of rubs

1300-50; 1860-65 for def 18b; Middle English rubben (v.); cognate with Frisian rubben, Danish rubbe, Swedish rubba

Examples for rubs

The rub is that these devices have been in short supply lately.

rub pork loin with paprika, Cajun seasoning, parsley, onion powder, garlic powder, sugar, salt, and pepper.

Reserve some of the stuffing to rub all over the outside of the meat.

Maybe the cleric can rub his own magic lamp, and ask it to explain the concept known as brain drain.

When you get a new one they tell you to put coco-butter on your fingers and rub it a lot so it won't show so much.

And this time the thing he wanted was to get the dervish to rub some of the salve on his other eye.

Wash the meat in cold water, and then wipe it dry, and rub it with salt.

He ran and pulled some grass and proceeded to rub the Major down.

rub the loin with olive oil, and season with salt and pepper.

Is it that it seems a strange and hideous dream, from which we will awake and rub our eyes?