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Princeton's WordNet

  1. yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbaconnoun

    a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture

Wiktionary

  1. rubenoun

    A person of rural heritage; a yokel.

  2. rubenoun

    An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person.

  3. Rubenoun

    A diminutive of the male given name Reuben.

  4. Etymology: Generic use of the name Rube.

Wikipedia

  1. Rube

    A rube is a country bumpkin or an inexperienced, unsophisticated person. Rube is also sometimes used as a nickname, for Reuben, Ruben or Rubin.

ChatGPT

  1. rube

    A rube is a term typically used to describe an unsophisticated or naive person, typically from a rural or non-urban location. It is often used in a derogatory or pejorative manner to indicate lack of knowledge, experience, or sophistication.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. RUBE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Rube is ranked #76275 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Rube surname appeared 252 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Rube.

    90.4% or 228 total occurrences were White.
    3.5% or 9 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    3.1% or 8 total occurrences were Black.
    1.9% or 5 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Rube in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Rube in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Rube in a Sentence

  1. Jim Womack:

    There's a pretty high correlation between Elon Musk announcing a new sort of Rube Goldberg activities and the lack of anything else to report that investors might actually be interested in.

  2. Elon Musk:

    The code base is like a Rube Goldberg machine, and when you zoom in on one part of the Rube Goldberg machine, there’s another Rube Goldberg machine, and then there’s another one, so it’s quite difficult to keep this thing running, and then also difficult to advance the product because it is really overly complex, to say the least.

  3. Elon Musk:

    The code base is like a Rube Goldberg machine, and when you zoom in on one part of the Rube Goldberg machine, there’s another Rube Goldberg machine, and then there’s another one.

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