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n. - Effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure;

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  • Then it leaves from that department and goes into what you call rubbing and packing.
  • His sons had different jobs, around in the paint room, I think, I believe that's where, what they called rubbing filler in.
  • He was expert in rubbing his own cat's fur backwards.
  • The big fallout of this cable rubbing is that you can no longer hotsync your PDA to your computer.
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