noun
- plural of rube; unsophisticated people from rural areas
Usage: informal; sometimes derogatory
Examples
- The city slickers looked down on the visitors as rubes.
- Don’t treat us like rubes just because we’re from a small town.
- The con artist targeted rubes at the county fair.
- They assumed the farmers were rubes who didn’t understand technology.
- The locals resented being called rubes by the tourists.
- Despite their rural background, they were far from being rubes.