Roob

Roger Price (creator of MadLibs) in his 1970 classic, "The Roob Revolution" created the term 'roob' to denote the so-called Silent Majority of his time. They are still with us today, as evidenced by the political 'career' of Sarah Palin et al.

The roobs are immediately identifiable not only by their uneducated mangling of our language (I will refer you to his book and Paul Fussell's immortal treatise "Class" for more detail) but their inability to see cause and effect of their own toxic behavior.

It may also be referred to with the plural roobs and the collective noun roobdom.

Obviously, it is derived from the derogatory urban slang of yesteryear, rube which was short for reuben, referring to an undereducated rural person (e.g., "Reuben Reuben I've Been Thinking").

A synonym: bubs, as in 'the bubs', a depiction of the Elmer Fudd like qualities of the modern rube.

If you live in the U.S., just look around you; they are everywhere. They are in some ways the American version of Orwell's 'proles.'

Here are some examples of RoobSpeak from Mr. Price:

Dropping the 'g' on present participles (think Bush's speechifyin');

Misuse of the word 'penultimate' to mean 'ultimate';

the infallible mark of the roob, according to Price, is the pronunciation of the word "interesting" as "inna-ress-ing"

with the stress on the third syllable.

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Roobs

The protruding ribs on a skinny-guy that look disturbingly like the breasts of an elderly matron when he sucks in his abdominal region.

Terry lifted his shirt and sucked in his stomach displaying his roobs.

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Roobbed

A common typo made when trying to type robbed

Sophie: he roobbed me.
Brandon: Roobbed?
Sophie:Robbed**

roobs

roobs is a leet rogue that plays on aniwow

Have u seen Roobs yet? He owned me. QQ

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roob

A runescapian who, regardless of combat level or other skills/property, is worse than a noob. A noob is an annoying player, regardless of c lvl, etc. A roob is akin to the god of all noobs.

Dude, you're such a roob!

But, I'll own u in wildy! Noob!

I'd rather be a dead noob than a roob, roob.

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roob

a runescapian who is gay

guy #1:your a roob.
guy #2: why, yes i am.. your kind of cute.

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Roob

One who strattles the Rubicon, the river you cross when the reaper comes for you on a boat. A roob is equally useless in both life and afterlife.

Damien is almost thirty and is still couch surfing and losing jobs. He's such a roob..

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