| 释义 |
ˈrub-out U.S. slang.
Also rubout.
[f. vbl. phr. to rub out s.v. rub v.1 11 a.]
A murder, an assassination, esp. of one gangster by another. Also attrib.
1927D. Hammett in Black Mask May 11/2 The hombre she blamed for Paddy's rub-out. 1934Sun (Baltimore) 21 Aug. 7/1 Another..witness is Mrs...Fontaine, alleged ‘gang-girl’ associate of ‘Big George’ Phillips wounded in one ‘rub out’ attempt. 1953Ibid. 12 June 34/3 Police marked down the Messina murder as one of Baltimore's extremely rare gangland rubouts. 1959Washington Post 15 Aug. a3/1 Two hoodlums were gunned to death on Chicago's West Side today and police said at least one of the executions was probably a crime syndicate ‘rubout’. 1977Time 10 Jan. 22/1 In what was clearly a political rub-out, the couple—who were discovered by Mrs. Tayyeb's sister, sometime Skyjacker Leila Khaled—had been killed by at least a dozen shots. |