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Rube meaning
A person of rural heritage; a yokel. | An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person.
Example sentences (20)
But it wasn’t a complete failure either and you’re not a rube if you say so.
The average Astros fan is a feckless rube, bandwagoning on an established product in the same way the mindless fans clamor for the Franchise.
The Rube Goldberg machines suddenly stopped.
There's an assumption that when you go out and spend more for a product that you would not have been able to identify the difference in a blind taste test that you are somehow a rube.
The trailer to announce the album, narrated by Big Rube, features cameo appearances from T.I. and 2 Chainz.
And it turns out that what Guy Ritchie can do is craft lovable antiheroes by the dozen and pit them against each other in an eclectic Rube Goldberg machine of coincidence and irony.
But Rube Foster insisted on Black ownership in his league.
For many, the idea of the “Green Acres” rube pushing away on an old open-station, no-ROPS (Rollover Protective Structure) tractor is still common.
If the clarity's decent, he might get it cut and have a jeweler palm it off as a "chocolate diamond" to some rube.
It’s a simple Rube Goldberg machine, with an imbalanced super soaker turning on the pool drain, and an errant golf ball knocking Hunt’s lucky coin into the water, but it’s definitely effective.
Sort of the opposite of Rube Goldberg as instead of taking a simple task and making it unbelievably complicated, he takes a long, ponderous task and simplifies it.
The tales of John Mayasich’s wizardry, Roseau’s “Masked Marvel” Rube Bjorkman, Dave Spehar’s scintillating goal-scoring ability and Bruce Plante’s prominent press conference appearances are known and told far and wide across the state.
With a series of what’s typically described as Rube Goldberg-like accidents, the characters dodged death time and time again, only to ultimately meet their demise just as the protagonist had predicted.
I once bought a Bentley manual for one of my cars and being the rube I was at the time, I thought it extremely egalitarian that the maker of exclusive luxury cars would go to the trouble of also creating repair manuals for other makers’ products.
No Effort had to put in one final one to stay ahead – ultimately saluting by less than half a length from Oceanex and Rube Bridges in third.
The activity book and Rube Goldberg machine provide something for every age group and ability.
The Florida woman convinced her rube that her family had been cursed, and the only way to lift the curse was by spending crap loads of cash on magic crystals and candles.
Gravity has met its match here, as the first half of the process is made to look like your average, run-of-the-mill Rube Goldberg machine (if there even is such a thing) — except it’s being filmed upside down.
If there's a real Rube Goldberg, quality to the destruction that's going on around her that somehow doesn't affect her.
Plenty of Ivy League graduates populate the halls of media, academia, and government and could be called idiots, but characterizing Page as some rube plucked off the street to play his brief role as a Trump campaign advisor is a stretch.