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单词 rubout
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ruboutn.

Brit. /ˈrʌbaʊt/, U.S. /ˈrəbˌaʊt/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: to rub out 1b at rub v.1 Phrasal verbs.
Etymology: < to rub out 1b at rub v.1 Phrasal verbs.
U.S. slang.
A murder, an assassination, esp. of one gangster by another.
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1927 D. Hammett in Black Mask May 11/2 The hombre she blamed for Paddy's rub-out.
1934 Sun (Baltimore) 21 Aug. 7/1 Another..witness is Mrs...Fontaine, alleged ‘gang-girl’ associate of ‘Big George’ Phillips wounded in one ‘rub out’ attempt.
1953 Sun (Baltimore) 12 June 34/3 Police marked down the Messina murder as one of Baltimore's extremely rare gangland rubouts.
1977 Time 10 Jan. 22/1 In what was clearly a political rub-out, the couple..had been killed by at least a dozen shots.
2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Mar. iv. 5/3 A young Gigante, still making his bones, shot but only grazed Costello in a failed rubout attempt.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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