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rube

noun as in hick

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Come for the Rube Goldberg machines, leave feeling like a rube.

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As the campaign wore on and tightened up after Joe Biden dropped out, Trump was forced to make some "populist" gestures for the rubes.

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As though his jury of peers — whom he likely considered hapless rubes — would surely agree that putting a “personal friend” of Oprah’s in prison was unthinkable.

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He is “arrogant, free spending” and such a rube that he has an “$8 haircut.”

The first set of rubes were those rich GOP donors.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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