What does rubber mean in slang?

in baseball , a strip of rubber on athat the foot of themust be touching when they start to throw the ball

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:

Latex being collected from a tapped rubber tree, Cameroon

Two rubbers (erasers)

A rolled-up condom

Pronunciation

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• (

  UK

  )

  IPA(key):

  /ˈɹʌbə(ɹ)/

  ,

  [ˈɹɐbə(ɹ)]

• (

  US

  )

  IPA(key):

  /ˈɹʌbɚ/

• Audio (US)

• Audio (AU)

• Rhymes:

  -ʌbə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

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From rub +‎ -er.

The sense of the substance comes from its ability to function as an eraser, displacing earlier caoutchouc. The senses not having to do with rubbing or erasing are secondarily derived from the name of the substance.

Noun

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rubber (usually uncountable, plural rubbers)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Translations

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synthetic materials with the same properties

• Bulgarian: гума

  f

  (

  guma

  )

• Catalan: goma(ca)

  f

• Chinese:

  Mandarin:

  please add this translation if you can

• Czech: guma(cs)

  f

  , pryž(cs)

  f

• Esperanto: gumo
• Finnish: kumi(fi)
• French: gomme(fr)

  f

  , caoutchouc(fr)

  m

• Galician: goma(gl)

  f

• Georgian: რეზინი

  (

  rezini

  )

• German: Gummi(de)

  m or n

  , Kautschuk(de)

  m

• Greek: λάστιχο(el)

  n

  (

  lásticho

  )

• Hungarian: gumi(hu)
• Japanese:

  (

  colloquial

  )

  ゴム(ja)

  (

  gomu

  )

  ;

  (

  synthetic one

  )

  合成ゴム

  (

  gōsei-gomu

  )

• Latvian: gumija

  f

• Macedonian: гума

  f

  (

  guma

  )

• Malayalam: റബ്ബർ

  (

  ṟabbaṟ

  )

• Norwegian: kunstgummi

  m

• Polish: guma(pl)

  f

• Portuguese: borracha(pt)

  f

• Romanian: cauciuc(ro)

  n

• Russian: рези́на(ru)

  f

  (

  rezína

  )

• Spanish: goma(es)

— see

eraser

condom

• Bulgarian: презерватив(bg)

  m

  (

  prezervativ

  )

• Catalan: condó(ca)

  m

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 套兒

  ／

  套儿(zh)

  (

  tàor

  )

  , 安全套(zh)

  (

  ānquántào

  )

  , 避孕套(zh)

  (

  bìyùntào

  )

• Dutch: condoom(nl)

  m

  , rubber(nl)

  n

• Estonian: kondoom(et)kumm

  class slang

• Finnish: kumi(fi)
• French: capote(fr)

  f

  ,

  (

  Quebec

  )

  condom(fr)

  m

  , préservatif(fr)

  m

• German: Gummi(de)

  m or n

  , Kondom(de)

  n

  , Präservativ(de)

  n

• Greek: προφυλακτικό(el)

  n

  (

  profylaktikó

  )

• Hungarian: gumi(hu)óvszer(hu)koton(hu)
• Italian: preservativo(it)

  m

• Japanese: ゴム(ja)

  (

  gomu

  )

• Norwegian: gummi

  m

  , kondom

  m

• Persian: ابریشمی(fa)
• Polish: gumka(pl)

  f

• Portuguese: camisinha(pt)

  f

  , preservativo(pt)

  m

• Russian: презервати́в(ru)

  m

  (

  prezervatív

  )

  , рези́нка(ru)

  f

  (

  rezínka

  )

  , гондо́н(ru)

  m

  (

  gondón

  )

  (

  vulgar

  )

• Spanish: goma(es)

  f

• Swedish: gummi(sv)

  n

• Turkish: prezervatif(tr)kondom(tr)şapka(tr)

  (

  slang

  )

someone or something which rubs

• Chinese:

  Mandarin:

  please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: hankaaja
• Russian:

  please add this translation if you can

baseball: pad on the pitcher's mound

• Catalan: placa del llançador(ca)

  f

• Chinese:

  Mandarin:

  please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: syöttölaatta
• Russian:

  please add this translation if you can

water resistant shoe covers

• Bulgarian: галоши

  m pl

  (

  galoši

  )

• Chinese:

  Mandarin:

  please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: kalossi(fi)
• Greek: γαλότσες(el)

  f pl

  (

  galótses

  )

• Macedonian: галоши

  m pl

  (

  galoši

  )

• Norwegian: kalosj

  m

• Russian: гало́ши(ru)

  f pl

  (

  galóši

  )

  , кало́ши(ru)

  f pl

  (

  kalóši

  )

tires

• Chinese:

  Mandarin:

  please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: kumi(fi)kumit(fi)

  pl

• French: gommes(fr)

  f pl

• German: Gummi(de)

  m or n

• Greek: λάστιχα(el)

  n pl

  (

  lásticha

  )

• Hungarian: gumi(hu)gumiabroncs(hu)
• Japanese: ゴム(ja)

  (

  gomu

  )

• Norwegian: dekk

  n

  , bilgummi

  m

• Romanian: cauciuc(ro)

  n

• Russian: ши́ны(ru)

  f pl

  (

  šíny

  )

  , рези́на(ru)

  f

  (

  rezína

  )

• Spanish: goma(es)

  f

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Adjective

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rubber

1. (

   slang

   ,

   of a check

   of a draft

   )

   Not covered by funds on account.

Usage notes

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Colloquially, a check that has insufficient funds to cover it is said to "bounce"; consequently, a check that will immediately bounce is referred to as "rubber" or a "rubber check."

Synonyms

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• (

  of a draft/check

  )

  :

  hotbad

  I wouldn't take a check from him. They're pure rubber.

Translations

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Etymology 2

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Unknown.

Noun

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rubber (plural rubbers)

Derived terms

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Etymology 3

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

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rubber (third-person singular simple present rubbers, present participle rubbering, simple past and past participle rubbered)

References

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English rubber.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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rubber n (plural rubbers, diminutive rubbertje n)

1. (

   uncountable

   )

   rubber

   (pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree)
2. piece of rubber used in machines
3. a condom

Derived terms

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• rubberen

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  adjective

  )

West Frisian

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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rubber c or n (no plural)

Further reading

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• “rubber (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Adjective

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rubber

Inflection

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Further reading

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• “rubber (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011