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“I admit that a private jet beats the TSA rub-a-dub.”
“Get ready to skank and rub-a-dub all night, helped by $3.50 Red Stripes and stiff rum drinks.”
“Live mixing from MES actually made sense, too. (in a rub-a-dub style ...)”
“We had breakfast, and afterwards Linnea and I did our usual washing - teeth, and hands and faces, and big towel-wrestling rub-a-dub drying off afterwards.”
“Be that as it may, I was by this time wide awake, though much aggrieved at feeling so, and through the open window heard the distant roll of musketry, and the beating of drums, with a quick rub-a-dub, and the ‘come round the corner’ of trumpet-call.”
“A spunky combination of rock and rub-a-dub, the song has a knee-dipping sound along the lines of African pop singer Fela Anikulapo Kuti, with the greasy, delayed-timing sax chorus of vintage James Brown.”
“It affords endless amusement to listen to their endless variety of complaint; some are restless, some spiteful, and some angry, while others sound as merrily as a teakettle, or beat a jolly 'rub-a-dub,' 'rataplan,' that makes a man's soul merry to hear.”
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
“Several times, a sergeant, corporal, and a couple of drummers came down to Lexington, and marched through the town, beating a rub-a-dub on their drums.”
“The old staid rub-a-dub of the English drummer is giving place to the stirring French rat-a-plan.”
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
“A little French drummer, singing to his rub-a-dub, and the agreeable yell of a dog, complete the vocal performers.”
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Hyphen Nation
Terms with multiple hyphens, such as rent-a-crowd. Not intended to be a see-how-many-words-one-can-string-together-with-hyphens-used-adjectively sort of list.
much-talked-of, vis-à-vis, tête-à-tête, rope-a-dope, will-o'-the-wisp, dick-a-tuesday, will-in-the-wisp, jack-o'-lantern, jack-with-a-lantern, ear-to-ear, whack-a-mole, no-man's-land and 205 more...
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Choi inspired
Fun words my friend loves and others I introduced to him.
Namby-pamby, Niminy piminy, Nitpick, Nit-wit, Piggly-wiggly, Ping-pong, Pitter-patter, Raggle-taggle, Riff-raff, zoot suit, zig-zag, wishy-washy and 73 more...
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Onomatopoetics
Words formed in imitation of a natural sound.
bumble-bee, rat-a-tat, blurt, clink, chickadee, rub-a-dub, chirr, chug, keck, flim-flam, brekekekex, thunk and 94 more...
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Damieng's Words
lupine, sapor, boz imp, imp, ovine, saracen, haberdashery, tiebar, shill, cutler, cutaway, lucite and 218 more...
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