noun
- an unsophisticated person from a rural area
Usage: informal; sometimes derogatory
Examples
- The city slickers tried to take advantage of the rube at the carnival.
- Don’t act like such a rube when we go to the fancy restaurant.
- He may seem like a rube, but he’s actually quite intelligent.
- The con artist targeted tourists who looked like rubes.
- She felt like a rube in her first week at the big city college.
- The locals called him a rube because he’d never seen a subway before.