rubber

Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon biopolymer of isoprene.countableuncountableusually

Natural rubber or any of various synthetic materials with similar properties as natural rubber.countableuncountableusually

• In the middle of the dense woodland near Sullia, a small town in southern India, there is one form of lighting for the poor and another for the rich: for the former, lamps burning kerosene, which has to be fetched from a source several hour

An eraser.AustraliaBruneiIndia

• For example, they may use paddle pop sticks, hand span, pencils, rubbers, mathematics equipment (i.e. base 10 material) or anything else the teacher can find to measure the lengths of nominated objects.
• Stan stole a diary and some pens, pencils, ink and rubbers during his early days as a POW working on the Singapore docks.

A condom, especially an external condom.CanadaUScountable

• And the rubbers you hide / In your top left pocket
• Don't have sex, because you will get pregnant and die! Don't have sex in the missionary position, don't have sex standing up, just don't do it, OK, promise? OK, now everybody take some rubbers.

Someone or something which rubs.countableusually

• What perplexity plagues the chin-rubber in the foreground and what so discourages the man leaning on the lamp post? And to what doom is the large man at right moving? Photographer Cowherd has no answers.

Someone or something which rubs.; One who rubs down horses.countableuncountableusually

Someone or something which rubs.; One who practises massage.countableuncountableusually

• I curl his perriwig, paint his cheeks, perfume his breath; I am his froterer or rubber in a hot-house

Someone or something which rubs.; A coarse towel for rubbing the body.countableuncountableusually

Someone or something which rubs.; An abrasive for rubbing with: a whetstone, file, or emery cloth, etc.countableuncountableusually

The cushion of an electric machine.historicaluncountableusually

Not covered by funds on account.slang

In relation to a series of games or matches between two competitors where the overall winner of the series is the competitor which wins a majority of the individual games or matches:; The entire series, of an odd number of games or matches in which ties are impossible (especially a series of three games in bridge or whist).

• […] an old lady's innocent rubber.

In relation to a series of games or matches between two competitors where the overall winner of the series is the competitor which wins a majority of the individual games or matches:; An individual match within the series (especially in racquet sports).

• Ladies matches shall consist of 6 rubbers. Each rubber shall consist of best of 3 games to 21 points.

A rubber match; a game or match played to break a tie.CanadaUS

The game of rubber bridge.

• "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I have not had my rubber." "I think you will find that you will play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and that t

To eavesdrop on a telephone call

• "There's a lot of nostalgia about the phone and how it was the way to get the local news," said Jane Beck of the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. One way was "rubbering," or listening in on a neighbor's conversations ...

To rubberneck; to observe with unseemly curiosity.slang

• Old Sally didn't talk much, except to rave about the Lunts, because she was busy rubbering and being charming.