rubbydub

< rubby, q.v. + dub clumsy, stupid person

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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

See: rubby(def. 2)

Quotations

1950

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.

1957

"We've got everything here from ex-cons to rubby-dubs," says Scott Raebould, one of Elliot's six provincial policemen.

1964

He is apt to notice . . . a sunblinded rubbydub who has just lurched out of the Metropole Tavern.