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Definition of rube in English English dictionary
- A diminutive of the male given name Reuben
- A person of rural heritage; a yokel
- An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person
- disapproval If you refer to a man or boy as a rube, you consider him stupid and uneducated because he comes from the countryside. He's no rube. He's a very smart guy. = hick. someone, usually from the country, who has no experience of other places and thinks in a simple way - used to show disapproval (Rube male name, from Reuben)
- not very intelligent or interested in culture
- An unsophisticated or unintelligent person
- A naive or clueless person, but not necessarily a prime Sometimes this term's used to describe any non-Cager
- {i} rustic, unsophisticated person from a small town or village, hick
- Rube Goldberg machine
- A comical, overcomplicated machine which performs a simple task
- Rube Goldberg machines
- plural form of Rube Goldberg machine
- Rube Goldberg
- a US cartoonist (=an artist who draws funny pictures that tell a joke or say something humorous about the news) who drew strange and extremely complicated machines that are designed to do very simple jobs Heath Robinson (1883-1970)
- hey rube
- A fight between members of a circus and the general public
I said 'Shut it, Camel! I'm dealing with a situation here.' Walter says. /.'What kind of situation?' says Camel. / 'Jacob's messed up.' / 'What? How? Was there a hey rube?'.
- hey rube
- A call to rally circus members in a fight
- rubes
- plural of rube
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Turkish pronunciation
rubPronunciation
/ˈro͞ob/ /ˈruːb/
Etymology
[ 'rüb ] (noun.) 1896. Rube, nickname for Reuben.Resimler
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