rubby

< rubbing alcohol

Slang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

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

Quotations

1961

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

2n.

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

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.