rubber

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   returned for lack of funds

   a rubber check

2. 2
   verb

   coat or impregnate with rubber

   rubberize fabric for rain coats

3. 3
   noun

   An eraser.

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   A condom, especially an external condom.

   And the rubbers you hide / In your top left pocket

5. 5
   noun

   Someone or something which rubs.

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   The rectangular pad on the pitcher's mound from which the pitcher must pitch.

   Jones toes the rubber and then fires to the plate.

7. 7
   noun

   Water-resistant shoe covers, galoshes, overshoes.

   Johnny, don't forget your rubbers today.

8. 8
   noun

   Tires, particularly racing tires.

   Jones enters the pits to get new rubber.

Etymology

From rub + -er. The sense of the substance comes from its ability to function as an eraser, displacing earlier caoutchouc. The senses not pertaining to rubbing or erasing are secondarily derived from the name of the substance.