Rub out
The crossword clue "Rub out" is answered by DOIN, a 4-letter entry. Used 17 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1976. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DOIN
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DOIN answer page.
Used 17 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1976. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for DOIN
Every other clue in this collection answered by DOIN, most used first.
- Slay - used 58 times, most recently in 2025
- Bump off - used 33 times, most recently in 2024
- Knock off - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
- Murder - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
- "Whatcha ___?" - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Ruin - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
- Destroy - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Finish off - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Off - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
- "Nothin' ___!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- Kill - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Leave out - OMIT, used 929 times
- Way out - EXIT, used 285 times
- Try out - TEST, used 242 times
- Send out - EMIT, used 240 times
- Out of control - AMOK, used 212 times
- Dole (out) - METE, used 206 times
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