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  • I admit that a private jet beats the TSA rub-a-dub.

    The Rise of Consumption Equality Andy Kessler 2012

  • Get ready to skank and rub-a-dub all night, helped by $3.50 Red Stripes and stiff rum drinks.

    Nightlife Agenda 2010

  • Get ready to skank and rub-a-dub all night, helped by $3.50 Red Stripes and stiff rum drinks.

    Nightlife agenda 2010

  • Get ready to skank and rub-a-dub all night, helped by $3.50 Red Stripes and stiff rum drinks.

    Going out gurus highlight DJs, bands, dance nights in District 2010

  • Live mixing from MES actually made sense, too. (in a rub-a-dub style ...)

    The Fall online - latest Fall News 2006

  • We had breakfast, and afterwards Linnea and I did our usual washing - teeth, and hands and faces, and big towel-wrestling rub-a-dub drying off afterwards.

    My Mama Told Me, There'd Be Days Like This ailbhe 2005

  • Be that as it may, I was by this time wide awake, though much aggrieved at feeling so, and through the open window heard the distant roll of musketry, and the beating of drums, with a quick rub-a-dub, and the ‘come round the corner’ of trumpet-call.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • A spunky combination of rock and rub-a-dub, the song has a knee-dipping sound along the lines of African pop singer Fela Anikulapo Kuti, with the greasy, delayed-timing sax chorus of vintage James Brown.

    Ghost In The Machine 1981

  • It affords endless amusement to listen to their endless variety of complaint; some are restless, some spiteful, and some angry, while others sound as merrily as a teakettle, or beat a jolly 'rub-a-dub,' 'rataplan,' that makes a man's soul merry to hear.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • Several times, a sergeant, corporal, and a couple of drummers came down to Lexington, and marched through the town, beating a rub-a-dub on their drums.

    Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59

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