Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An energetic massage of the body.
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- noun A quick, energetic
massage
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- noun the act of rubbing down, usually for relaxation or medicinal purposes
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Examples
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That's fine for a select few, but such a "rubdown" is hardly the remedy for relieving pain in all parts of the body.
unknown title Mike Holzheimer/Sun News mholzheimer@sunnews.com 2009
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Last week, I tried one conveniently located near Macy's, advertising a 35-minute rubdown for $30.
Massaging Away the Holidays Anne Kadet 2011
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After my rubdown, I joined the other guests in El Colibr í 's great room.
High Plains Drifting 2010
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Maybe even oh please, oh please sexually deviant or deliciously filthy in the eyes of a panicky, manic depressive Christian God, something that would make priests swoon, Mormons moan and more than a few Republican senators run off to the bathhouse for a hot sweat and a rubdown?
Mark Morford: Hello, Sinner! What Are You Guilty of Today? Mark Morford 2011
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Maybe even oh please, oh please sexually deviant or deliciously filthy in the eyes of a panicky, manic depressive Christian God, something that would make priests swoon, Mormons moan and more than a few Republican senators run off to the bathhouse for a hot sweat and a rubdown?
Mark Morford: Hello, Sinner! What Are You Guilty of Today? Mark Morford 2011
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The serious implication, which Whetstine denies, is that the masseur applied the illegal cream to Gatlin in a revenge-laced rubdown.
Justin Gatlin: I got to the point where I said, 'I don't care anymore' 2011
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She recouped and made it out in time to run backstage for a rubdown and outfit change.
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It's like getting a rubdown from Mickey Mouse's disembodied arm.
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A dry tissue rubdown removed some, but far from all, of the bacteria.
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Feller repaired to the Y, where Weisman gave him a rubdown.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
mollusque commented on the word rubdown
Then I went to a Turkish bath place. I stayed a couple of hours, had a steam bath, a plunge, a needle shower, a rubdown and made a couple of phone calls from there.
Raymond Chandler, 1953, The Long Goodbye, chapter 5
September 5, 2009