| 释义 |
rubby Canad.|ˈrʌbɪ|
[f. rubbing (alcohol) s.v. rubbing vbl. n. 5 a: see -y6.]
1. A habitual drinker of rubbing alcohol (see sense 2 below).
1950A. Palmer Montreal Confidential 102 The police department has probably given up keeping score of rubbies they have fished out of the river. 1965Vancouver Sun 18 Oct. 35/6 Most of the dinner guests were men off the street, rubbies, derelicts, the jobless, alcoholics, the lost ones, residents of Vancouver's Skid road. 1978W. S. Avis in Occasional Papers Dept. English R. Military Coll. Canada No. 2. 45 Both skid roads remained to become run-down, unsavoury slums.., the hangouts of drifters, rubbies, and other unfortunates.
2. Rubbing alcohol, sometimes mixed with wine, etc., used as an intoxicant.
1961Maclean's Mag. 29 July 36/1 A gallon of wine and two bottles of rubby and you can throw a party in the jungles that'll last all night. 1974D. Richards Coming of Winter i. 29 And there in the shacks the old men hard on rubby, telling stories of the war.
Also ˌrubby-ˈdub [cf. also dub n.6] = sense 1 above.
1950A. Palmer Montreal Confidential 101 If the bum looks a bit plastered don't stop... Chances are he's a ‘rubby-dub’ and his mind is no doubt clouded with smoke. 1957Maclean's Mag. 25 May 68/2 ‘We've got everything here from ex-cons to rubby-dubs,’ says..one of Elliot's six provincial policemen. 1972Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 7 Mar. 31/8 Mr. Minister, don't talk nonsense—don't suggest the rubby-dub has to gather up enough money for his own treatment. |
