"rub-up" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rub-ups",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "rub-up (plural rub-ups)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "40 4 22 6 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1841, Thomas Miller, chapter 26, in Gideon Giles, the Roper, London: J. Hayward, page 212",
          "text": "[…] Ben laid them [the knives and forks] side by side, counted them, and finding the number agree with his guests, said, “They’ll dow capital when they’ve had a bit of a rub up.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1910, Joseph Conrad, “The Secret Sharer” in ’Twixt Land and Sea, New York: Hodder & Stoughton, p. 168,\nHe was still lingering in the pantry in the greatness of his zeal, giving a rub-up to a plated cruet stand the last thing before going to bed."
        },
        {
          "text": "1972, Dora Jessie Saint (as Miss Read), Tyler’s Row, Penguin, 1975, Part 1, Chapter 5, p. 51,\n‘I should think all your lovely things get a rub-up weekly,’ said Diana, handing back the box. ‘Does anyone come to help you?’"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The action of rubbing, for example polishing or massaging."
      ],
      "id": "en-rub-up-en-noun-X~O2bp4d",
      "links": [
        [
          "rub",
          "rub"
        ],
        [
          "polish",
          "polish"
        ],
        [
          "massaging",
          "massage"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The act of bringing old information to the front of one's memory."
      ],
      "id": "en-rub-up-en-noun-bCytiZJd",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "review"
        },
        {
          "word": "revision"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
          "word": "rubup"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0",
          "word": "rub up"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Caribbean English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A party, especially one that is spontaneous and involves music and dancing."
      ],
      "id": "en-rub-up-en-noun-hsTC0Kly",
      "links": [
        [
          "party",
          "party"
        ],
        [
          "spontaneous",
          "spontaneous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Caribbean) A party, especially one that is spontaneous and involves music and dancing."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Caribbean"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1889, Stevenson Arthur Blackwood, letter to his wife, cited in Some Records of the Life of Stevenson Arthur Blackwood, K.C.B., London: Hodder and Stoughton, p. 453,\nAltogether, it has been a most enjoyable trip to me. As much or as little company as I chose, and a rub up against a number of old acquaintances of all sorts."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An encounter (with someone)."
      ],
      "id": "en-rub-up-en-noun-VBvRL9gh",
      "links": [
        [
          "encounter",
          "encounter"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) An encounter (with someone)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "to do a rub-up",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of masturbating."
      ],
      "id": "en-rub-up-en-noun-ApBWl211",
      "links": [
        [
          "masturbating",
          "masturbate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, obsolete) The act of masturbating."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "rub-up"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rub-ups",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "rub-up (plural rub-ups)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1841, Thomas Miller, chapter 26, in Gideon Giles, the Roper, London: J. Hayward, page 212",
          "text": "[…] Ben laid them [the knives and forks] side by side, counted them, and finding the number agree with his guests, said, “They’ll dow capital when they’ve had a bit of a rub up.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1910, Joseph Conrad, “The Secret Sharer” in ’Twixt Land and Sea, New York: Hodder & Stoughton, p. 168,\nHe was still lingering in the pantry in the greatness of his zeal, giving a rub-up to a plated cruet stand the last thing before going to bed."
        },
        {
          "text": "1972, Dora Jessie Saint (as Miss Read), Tyler’s Row, Penguin, 1975, Part 1, Chapter 5, p. 51,\n‘I should think all your lovely things get a rub-up weekly,’ said Diana, handing back the box. ‘Does anyone come to help you?’"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The action of rubbing, for example polishing or massaging."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rub",
          "rub"
        ],
        [
          "polish",
          "polish"
        ],
        [
          "massaging",
          "massage"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The act of bringing old information to the front of one's memory."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "review"
        },
        {
          "word": "revision"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Caribbean English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A party, especially one that is spontaneous and involves music and dancing."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "party",
          "party"
        ],
        [
          "spontaneous",
          "spontaneous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Caribbean) A party, especially one that is spontaneous and involves music and dancing."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Caribbean"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1889, Stevenson Arthur Blackwood, letter to his wife, cited in Some Records of the Life of Stevenson Arthur Blackwood, K.C.B., London: Hodder and Stoughton, p. 453,\nAltogether, it has been a most enjoyable trip to me. As much or as little company as I chose, and a rub up against a number of old acquaintances of all sorts."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An encounter (with someone)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "encounter",
          "encounter"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) An encounter (with someone)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "to do a rub-up",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of masturbating."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "masturbating",
          "masturbate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, obsolete) The act of masturbating."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "rubup"
    },
    {
      "word": "rub up"
    }
  ],
  "word": "rub-up"
}