单词 | rubout |
释义 | ruboutn. U.S. slang. A murder, an assassination, esp. of one gangster by another. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > man-killing or homicide > murder or assassination > [noun] murderingeOE murderOE banec1175 morth gamec1275 morth spellc1275 slaughterc1325 murdermenta1400 murderdom1514 massacre1589 remove1592 assassinate1596 assassinment1602 assassination1610 assassinacy1611 assassinaya1641 removal1655 murderation1715 murdrum1767 thugdom1839 aliicide1868 hatchet job1925 liquidation1925 rubout1927 murder one1966 neutralization1971 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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