LekhoriLekhoriPliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon biopolymer of isoprene.
Natural rubber or any of various synthetic materials with similar properties as natural rubber.
In relation to a series of games or matches between two competitors where the overall winner of the series is the competitor which wins a majority of the individual games or matches:
They played, and Creed and his young partner won the first rubber, winning the two first games running.
To eavesdrop on a telephone call
"There's a lot of nostalgia about the phone and how it was the way to get the local news," said Jane Beck of the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. One way was "rubbering," or listening in on a neighbor's conversations ...
To rubberneck; to observe with unseemly curiosity.
From rub + -er. The sense of the substance comes from its ability to function as an eraser, displacing earlier caoutchouc. The senses not pertaining to rubbing or erasing are secondarily derived from ...
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Old Sally didn't talk much, except to rave about the Lunts, because she was busy rubbering and being charming.