Usually means: Transfer traits or qualities indirectly.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word rub off:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. rub off: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rub-off, rub off: Merriam-Webster
  3. rub off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rub-off, rub off: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rub off: Vocabulary.com
  6. rub-off: Wordnik
  7. rub off: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. rub off: Wiktionary
  9. rub-off, rub off: Dictionary.com
  10. rub off: Rhymezone
  11. rub off: FreeDictionary.org
  12. rub off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. rub-off, rub off: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rub off: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rub off: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rub off, rub off: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. rub-off: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

(Note: See rub-off as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (rub off)

verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rub, off.
verb:  To clean by rubbing.
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To be transferred with little or no effort.

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