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rube; reub
noun
an unsophisticated, naive, inexperienced person US, 1896
From the older, UK “reuben” (a country bumpkin).- It sure knocked those rubes out when they heard us play the blues[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 134, 1946
- Baltimore is overrun by rubes. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 261, 1951
- It used to irritate him, knowing what I had in my head, to hear me talking and acting like any other rube around town. — Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside, p. 28, 1952
- A few of the carnys knew who did it but they figured the rube had it coming[.] — Robert Edmond Alter, Carny Kill, p. 137, 1966
- I’m not a rube. I know who Tennessee Williams was. — Walter Tevis, The Color of Money, p. 52, 1984
- I can’t stand this goddamn hotel. Full of American rubes and geeks pissing away Junior’s college fund at the blackjack tables. — Carl Hiaasen, Tourist Season, p. 164, 1986
- You rubes! You were going for it. — Howard Stern, Miss America, p. 280, 1995
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