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rubby < rubbing alcohol Slang

• 1 n. rubbing alcohol used as a drink, especially when flavored with cheap wine or rum.

  • 1961  A gallon of wine and two bottles of rubby and you can throw a party in the jungles that'll last all night.

• 2 n. a person who drinks rubbing alcohol, shaving-lotion, etc., often flavored with cheap wine or rum; hence, an alcoholic, especially a derelict.

  See also: rubbydub  

  • 1950  The police department has probably given up keeping score of rubbies they have fished out of the river. . . .
  • 1965  Most of the dinner guests were men off the street, rubbies, derelicts, the jobless, alcoholics, the lost ones, residents of Vancouver's Skid road.