to kill someone
to remove with a rubber something that you have written or drawn in pencil, especially because you have made a mistake
to remove writing or drawing from a blackboard, whiteboard etc so that the surface is clean
If you make a mistake rub it out and rewrite the answer.
Suppose some lifer had had word sent in by the Orangemen - the Loyalists - to rub out Pat Doyle?
The Stork typed for a few moments, then paused to rub out knots in his cramped hands.
When she returned to the whiteboard, someone had rubbed out all her calculations.
rubs out
rubbing out
rubbed out
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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