Definition of "rube" [rube]

• Slang An unsophisticated country person. (noun)

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• "Rubingh includes the Dutch word rube, meaning 'peasant.'"
• "This moronic Neugebauer rube is also a birther … …."
• "* On the Alabama coast one can command more money from some Wisconsin rube than one can expect from a native Mobilian."