RUB may stand for
- RUB, Russian ruble ISO 4217 currency code
- Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- Royal University of Bhutan
Rub may refer to:
- The Kuliak languages of Uganda
- Spice rub, consisting of spices blended together to season and flavor raw pork, beef, chicken, fish, and wild game before grilling
- Rub or liniment, a medicated topical preparation for application to the skin
- Massage
- Rubbing, an art technique
- Rub (syrup), a kind of syrup extracted from dates used widely in Libya
Famous quotes containing the word rub:
“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.”
—Grover Cleveland (1837–1908)
“My boy ... always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.”
—Damon Runyon (1884–1946)