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Noun
rubby (plural rubbies)
- (Canada, slang) rubbing alcohol.
- (Canada, slang) A drunkard.
- Synonyms: dubby, rubadub, rubby-dub
1974, Tom Ardies, Kosygin is Coming, page 122: the rubbies crawling drunk and the Indian whores old women at twenty. The tourists obviously saw something else.
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