or rubber, verb. phr. (American).—See quots. Also TO RUBBER AROUND.
1901. FLYNT and WALTON, The Powers that Prey, 34. He was perfectly at a loss what to do next except as he phrased it, ‘TO RUBBER AROUND,’ which is technical and esoteric for keeping his eyes and ears open. Ibid., 60. They RUBBER so that they ain’t thinkin’ ’bout their leathers…. They’ll screw their necks till you’d think they was never goin’ to get ’em in shape again. Ibid., 121. You RUBBER too much with y’r neck, you do.
1902. Pall Mall Gazette, 8 March, 10, 1. It required considerable craning and stretching, or, as the Americans pithily describe it, RUBBER-NECKING, to allow even an occasional glimpse.
