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UK
/ɹˈʌbdaʊn/
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NOUN
- the act of rubbing down, usually for relaxation or medicinal purposes
How To Use rubdown In A Sentence
- Whether Swedish, shiatsu or a basic sports massage, these rubdowns have earned their reputation for buoying mind, body and spirit.
- Immediately after the sauna we got a rubdown, which, I swear, took half my skin off.
- I had a rubdown and then got into pyjamas for some dumb-bell exercises with two chairs, for that long wet ride had stiffened my arm and shoulder muscles. Greenmantle
- The deluxe spa suite located by the hotel's Olympic-sized pool, proffers clients an unobstructed view of a star-studded sky even as they get their rubdowns!
- Newspaper accounts said the Babe gulped ice water, inhaled snuff and got vigorous rubdowns between innings.
- Edmontonians in the market for a rubdown or a scrubdown voted the salon number one for the first year.
- After the federal government committed $85 billion to bail out the insurance behemoth, AIG, its executives headed for a weeklong retreat at a luxury resort and spa, paying nearly half a million taxpayer-supplied dollars for a week of rubdowns and daiquiris. Eric Alterman: Think Again: Wall Street Wins (and Whines)
- Several teams have brought along masseuses for postlap rubdowns, as well as mechanics for soup-to-nuts overhauls.
- For an excellent rubdown at a bargain rate, try the 55-minute head-to-toe massage.
- The serious implication, which Whetstine denies, is that the masseur applied the illegal cream to Gatlin in a revenge-laced rubdown. Justin Gatlin: I got to the point where I said, 'I don't care anymore'