rub up on
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.97 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rub, up, on, rub up.
Example Sentences
- "Had to let it know that I still had baller status. So when I was on the dance floor, busting my moves, I didn't mind the shorty with the tight, tight blue mini-skirt who was rubbing up on me and leading me on."
- "Others you may flee from immediately because an ugly drunk girl keeps rubbing up on you."
- "There, now they're hugging, the referee breaks them up, but don't you find it disgusting to see a couple of boxers rubbing up on each other?"
- "As Overbrook helped him with his coat, Babbitt said, “Nice to rub up on the old days! We must have lunch together, P.D.Q.”"
- "The poetry, prose and personality in Soul Clothes, may rub up on a curious and compassionate place within you, a place of stark reality drenched in divine hope."
- "It is a change for the better, to rub up on the ugliness of the place, see the stains it leaves."