rubber mate

The only friend you have left because you have accomplished making fun of everyone around you.

My rubber mate will be my best friend, my only friend.

by Mammagurl February 15, 2017

Synthesis of Petroleum, Rubber and Related Materials

The decades-long quest to create the world's most important industrial materials without drilling holes in the ground or tapping trees. Petroleum synthesis (from coal, natural gas, or biomass) is real and practiced at scale—Fischer-Tropsch plants turn gas into liquid fuels, especially where oil is expensive and gas is cheap. Rubber synthesis is even more successful: most rubber today is synthetic, made from petroleum. The frontier is making these processes cheaper, cleaner, and more efficient, and eventually making them from renewable sources. The dream is a world where transportation fuels come from air and water, where tires are made from plants, and where the petroleum age ends not because we ran out of oil but because we found something better.

Synthesis of Petroleum, Rubber and Related Materials Example: "The plant synthesized diesel from natural gas, producing fuel that burned cleaner than oil-derived diesel. It worked perfectly, at scale, for decades. Environmentalists hated it because natural gas. Oil companies hated it because competition. The plant didn't care; it just made fuel. Synthesis had won, quietly, without anyone noticing."

by Dumu The Void February 16, 2026

Rubbermade

To be the result of a faulty condom or improper use of condom. Typically used to describe unwanted kids and accidental pregnancy.

Guy: "Oh shit the condom broke!"
Girl: "What?"
Guy: "I'm kidding, I don't use condoms".
Girl: "!!!"
Guy: "Well at least it wont be a rubbermade baby...Peace!"

by Dick Thimble November 5, 2010

Rubbermatch

Most commonly used in boxing and MMA (mixed martial-arts), a rubbermatch is the third (and tie-breaking) match between two teams or individuals who have previously beaten each other once.

After the outcomes of Couture vs Liddell 1 & 2, a rubbermatch was inevitable to decide the superior fighter.

by tahoe5280 May 16, 2006

rubbermasterbaters

Also known as Crocks.

When one doesn't want to where regular shoes do to laziness, not usually used for masterbating but I'm sure if effective. Worn for comfort not style.

Amanda tells Kyle oh my God you're not really planning on leaving the house with your rubbermasterbaters on those are for inside only

by RoseJones February 7, 2020

Rubbergate

Any predictament in which your parent or legal gaurdian has found your hidden stash of condoms, rubbers, or profolactics. Which usually does not end well.

"Did you pull a Dick Nixon and a rubbergate scandal again?"

by Scott Lee Brideau July 13, 2009