Rubber

Quick meaning: Rubber is a noun meaning (uncountable, countable) Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon biopolymer of isoprene.

Meaning

(uncountable, countable) Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon biopolymer of isoprene.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable, countable) Natural rubber or any of various synthetic materials with similar properties as natural rubber.
2. (countable, Australia, India, Brunei, New Zealand, UK) An eraser.
3. (countable, Canada, US, slang) A condom, especially an external condom.
4. (countable) Someone or something which rubs.
5. (countable, baseball) The rectangular pad on the pitcher's mound from which the pitcher must pitch.
6. (Canada, US, in the plural) Water-resistant shoe covers, galoshes, overshoes.
7. (historical) The cushion of an electric machine.

Example Sentences

And the rubbers you hide / In your top left pocket

Jones toes the rubber and then fires to the plate.

My daddy said "Treat young girls like your mother" / My momma said "Trust no hoe, use a rubber"

Stan stole a diary and some pens, pencils, ink and rubbers during his early days as a POW working on the Singapore docks.

Word Forms

• rubbers
• rubbering
• rubbered

Synonyms for rubber

Depending on context, synonyms include hot, bad, condom, prophylactic, safety, arctic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include prophylactic, rubberize, rubberized, caoutchouc, condom, golosh.

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