rubbers
Noun
Meaning
rubbers
plural of rubber
(obsolete) Rubber overshoes; galoshes.
A disease of sheep, with great heat and itchiness.
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Phrases with the word
Examples
When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.
Those who play bowls must look out for rubbers.
In a sweet, dulcet Harvard whisper he implored 'Casey' to murder the umpire, and gave this cry of mass animal rage all the emphasis of a caterpillar wearing rubbers crawling on a velvet carpet.
Can also be used in producing many kinds of synthetic rubbers, which is applied in low temperature and it has no effect on vulcanization of rubbers.
Used as low cost non-black reinforcing, stiffening or extending fillers in natural and synthetic rubbers.
These blokes gave KEGS its backbone in spite of their canes, bunsen burner tubing, flying board rubbers, map rolls and many other medieval(sorry Ted) tortures.