( n ) A clumsy, unsophisticated person from the country. I must have looked like some rube when I signed the contract to buy the Brooklyn Bridge.

( n ) A loser, a jerk. Why you being such a rubber?

( v ) To kill. Several members of the competing gang were rubbed out.

( np ) A great destructive unfair act. He got the royal shaft from the principal for cutting so many classes.

( v ) To play rough. OK, you guys. No roughhousing in the living room.

( n ) A person with an excellent car. That dude she goes with is a rough rider with a really slick rod.

( n ) Bad quality liquor. I never drink that rot-gut hooch Harold buys from his uncle.

( n ) A handgun. Gimme yer roscoe, Roscoe; I can’t crack this walnut with my teeth.”

( v ) To cheer for. He always roots for the home tema.

( v ) To cheat or deceive. You paid $5 for that? You’ve been rooked.

( v ) To leave. It’s getting late; we are about to roll out.

( v ) To leave. Eleven o’clock? It’s time to roll!
( v ) To spend time talking. I’m rolling with the homies.
( v ) To rob someone drunk or sleeping. He got plastered last night and some woman he met in the bar rolled him.