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What does rub off mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word rub off? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see rub,‎ off.
  2. To clean by rubbing.
  3. (idiomatic) to be transferred with little or no effort
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She'd been shunned by girls, fearful that the disgrace — the ludicrous, hilarious smuttiness of it all — would rub off on them.
Once cooled, rub off blackened skin on outside of peppers, remove seeds and slice into large strips.
You hang around with riff-raff like the Weasleys and that Hagrid and it'll rub off on you.
I was impressed to meet a trilingual nine-year-old on holiday in Austria and hoped his good example might rub off on my kids.
Jackson will not have an official coaching role at the club but hoped his know-how could rub off on his team-mates.
People were having hard times, relationship difficulties, and it does rub off on you.

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