Usually means: Erase, eliminate, or kill someone.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word rub out:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. rub out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rub out: Merriam-Webster
  3. rub out: Collins English Dictionary
  4. rub out: Vocabulary.com
  5. rub out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. rub out: Wiktionary
  7. rub out: Dictionary.com
  8. rub out: Rhymezone
  9. rub out: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. rub out: FreeDictionary.org
  11. rub out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. rub out: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rub out: Legal dictionary
  2. rub out: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rub out: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rub out: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rub out: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. rub out: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. rub out: Urban Dictionary
  3. Rub-out: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rub out)

verb:  (transitive) To delete or erase or remove (something) by rubbing, especially with a rubber (eraser).
verb:  (obsolete) To get by; to live.
verb:  (transitive, criminal slang) To kill, especially to murder.
verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rub, out.

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