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Definition of rub (one) the wrong way

rub (one) the wrong way

verb

  • to annoy or anger.
                                                                                       

                                                                                      

    Citation from "The Cop", Reaper (TV, 2007), Season 1 Episode 8 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

    Last edited on Dec 20 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Dec 20 2010.

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Definitions include: discomfort caused by chub (fat) rubbing together.
Definitions include: to socialize.
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Definitions include: to repeatedly or pointedly bring up a sore subject.
Definitions include: To masturbate.
Definitions include: to masturbate.
Definitions include: to mock a person for something they did or failed to do.
Definitions include: to kill.
Definitions include: the problem.
Definitions include: to be related (in some way) to.

Other terms relating to 'the':

Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone.
Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving.
Definitions include: interrogation.
Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
Definitions include: information.
Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: a good estimate.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: inclusive.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing.
Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
Definitions include: of a male, to urinate.
Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them
Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner.

Other terms relating to 'way':

Definitions include: one's home neighborhood.
Definitions include: messed up.
Definitions include: acronym for "by the way".
Definitions include: in all directions.
Definitions include: To be obviously upset by something; having obvious negative feelings about a situation is to be feeling some kind of way.
Definitions include: the emergency lights on a car - there are four of them
Definitions include: to succeed.
Definitions include: acronym for "I don't like you in that way".
Definitions include: pregnant.
Definitions include: This describes a fatalist, philosophical view of life, based upon the military slang term for a mission which is terminal.
Definitions include: interjection of amazement.
Definitions include: an emphatic "no way".
Definitions include: an emphatic way of saying "no".
Definitions include: acronym for "on my way".
Definitions include: near death.

Other terms relating to 'wrong':

Definitions include: to seek something from the wrong person or place.
Definitions include: A man or woman with a body that is out of shape or unattractive.
Definitions include: completely incorrect.
Definitions include: extremely ugly
Definitions include: of multiple people, to have an unpleasant first meeting.
Definitions include: a metaphorical act that causes a person to be in a bad mood.
Definitions include: If someone looks really weird, they must be from planet wrong.
Definitions include: to be in a bad mood.
Definitions include: a bad part of town.

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