1
: an awkward unsophisticated person : rustic
2
: a naive or inexperienced person
Examples of rube in a Sentence
They treated us as if we were a bunch of rubes.
rural voters were tired of being treated as rubes by state officials, who showed interest in them only at election time
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Like master poker players sitting at a table with rubes, Wall Street’s quants and algorithmic traders like Citadel not only profit from Robinhood's customers' trades, but use the large amount of retail trading data from these purchases to anticipate market moves and profit.
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Javier Paz, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2025
Well, the rubes just elected Donald Trump president.
—Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 8 Nov. 2024
That’s easy: a rube, chump, or mark, whose naive optimism sets them up for betrayal.
—Jamil Zaki, TIME, 3 Sep. 2024
Sometimes, the film’s examination of excess can simply be excessive, but The Wolf of Wall Street is hypnotizing — and a damning condemnation of us poor rubes.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
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Javier Paz, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2025
Well, the rubes just elected Donald Trump president.
—Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 8 Nov. 2024
That’s easy: a rube, chump, or mark, whose naive optimism sets them up for betrayal.
—Jamil Zaki, TIME, 3 Sep. 2024
Sometimes, the film’s examination of excess can simply be excessive, but The Wolf of Wall Street is hypnotizing — and a damning condemnation of us poor rubes.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
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“Rube.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rube. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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