Meaning of rub up on | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To rub one's body against another person as a form of sexual stimulation or flirting.
   slang
2. To stimulate, interact, or resonate with.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rub, up, on, rub up.

Examples

“Had to let it know that I still had baller status. So when I was on the dance floor, busting my moves, I didn't mind the shorty with the tight, tight blue mini-skirt who was rubbing up on me and leading me on.”

“Others you may flee from immediately because an ugly drunk girl keeps rubbing up on you.”

“There, now they're hugging, the referee breaks them up, but don't you find it disgusting to see a couple of boxers rubbing up on each other?”

“As Overbrook helped him with his coat, Babbitt said, “Nice to rub up on the old days! We must have lunch together, P.D.Q.””

“The poetry, prose and personality in Soul Clothes, may rub up on a curious and compassionate place within you, a place of stark reality drenched in divine hope.”

“It is a change for the better, to rub up on the ugliness of the place, see the stains it leaves.”

“But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which [Justin] Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).”

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