rubbsih.html - {n.}, {informal} A check written without enough money in the bank to make it good. * /Bill got into trouble when he paid his bills with rubber checks./ * /By the time we knew he had paid us with a rubber check, the man had left the state./ * /The rubber check bounced./

rubbsih.html - n.
1 a tough elastic polymeric substance made from the latex of plants or synthetically.
2 esp. Brit. a piece of this or another substance for erasing pencil or ink marks.
3 colloq. a condom.
4 (in pl.) US galoshes.
5 a person who rubs; a masseur or masseuse.
6 a an implement used for rubbing. b part of a machine operating by rubbing.

rubber band a loop of rubber for holding papers etc. together. rubber plant 1 an evergreen plant, Ficus elastica, with dark-green shiny leaves, often cultivated as a house-plant.
2 (also rubber tree) any of various tropical trees yielding latex, esp. Hevea brasiliensis. rubber solution a liquid drying to a rubber-like material, used esp. as an adhesive in mending rubber articles. rubber stamp 1 a device for inking and imprinting on a surface.
2 a a person who mechanically copies or agrees to others' actions. b an indication of such agreement. rubber-stamp v.tr. approve automatically without proper consideration.

rubbery adj. rubberiness n. [RUB(1) + -ER(1), from its early use to rub out pencil marks]

rubbsih.html - n.
1 a match of three or five successive games between the same sides or persons at whist, bridge, cricket, lawn tennis, etc.
2 (prec. by the) a the act of winning two games in a rubber. b a third game when each side has won one. [orig. unkn.: used as a term in bowls from c. 1600]

rubbsih.html - v.tr.
(also -ise) treat or coat with rubber.

rubbsih.html - n. & v.
colloq. --n.

a person who stares inquisitively or stupidly.

--v.

intr. act in this way.

rubbsih.html - n.
1 in senses of RUB(1) v.
2 an impression or copy made by rubbing (see RUB(1) ) v. 10).