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rubbery

ruh buh ree

  • s  having an elastic texture resembling rubber in flexibility or toughness
  • s  difficult to chew

  • Kelly, who is convinced that the drink was drugged, says she felt her legs go rubbery and her mind turn to mush as the bartender led her to an employees-only restroom and raped her .
  • The patented rubbery tubes, which take mere moments to install, keep shoes securely tied all day, no matter what you're doing.
  • Hong Kongers want to feel that they can take all the abuse the world is giving them and still bounce back with a rubbery smilejust like a Stephen Chow hero.
News & Articles

  • Picking a Bone With Pecan Lodge
    Barbecued brisket is a finicky son of a bitch. Cook it too fast and you'll be left with a dry, rubbery hunk of beef the size of your grandmother's purse. Cook it too long and you can end up with a pile of loose, stringy meat. Smoke a perfect brisket on a cool spring morning and you'll get one res...
    June 12, 2013 - Dallas Observer
  • National parks to offer healthier food under new standards
    The consumption of rubbery hot dogs and cellophane-wrapped sandwiches of indeterminate age is a time-honored rite of passage for generations of families making the trek to national parks around the country.
    June 11, 2013 - Thomasville Times-Enterprise
  • National parks to offer healthier food options
    WASHINGTON — The consumption of rubbery hot dogs and cellophane-wrapped sandwiches of indeterminate age is a time-honored rite of passage for generations of families making the trek to national parks around the country.
    June 11, 2013 - Delaware County Daily Times
Quotes

  • Conn Iggulden in Boston Herald
    Rule No. 1 was we either had to make it or do it - we've both read books where the author clearly hasn't made a raft or whatever, and so the instructions don't work,Iggulden said. "It was pretty rubbery."
  • Kevin Kouzmanoff in USA Today
    It was pretty gross,said Kouzmanoff, who paid $5 for the three-course meal. "I think the taste was better than the smell. The snake was extremely rubbery. It was like chewing on a rubber band."
  • Christine Milne in The Age
    Either the government is including significant and as-yet unannounced energy-efficiency measures into their calculations, or they are deliberately using rubbery figures and hoping nobody examines them closely,Senator Milne said in a statement.

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