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cube
noun- a complete conformist US
An intensification of SQUARE - Youngsters of both sexes used to call a person who wasn’t hip a “square,” but now the phrase is “cube” (that’s a square in 3-D). — American Weekly, p. 2, 14 August 1955
- Man, what a cube. This I gotta dig. — William Bast, The Myth Makers [Six Granada Plays], p. 176, 1958
- “A cube is a new fangled square, isn’t it?” she teased. — Morton Cooper, High School Confidential, p. 138, 1958
- — San Francisco News, p. 6, 25 March 1958
- “Compared to you, Big Ten boys are cubes.” — Glendon Swarthout, Where the Boys Are, p. 69, 1960
- LSD US
From the fact that LSD was often administered in sugar cubes. - — Donald Louria, Nightmare Drugs, p. 45, 1966
- a tablet of marijuana, approximately one gram in weight US, 1984
From the shape. - — Richard A. Spears, The Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drink, p. 130, 1986
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 287, 2003
- a tablet of morphine US
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 54, 1950
- — Rose Giallombardo, Society of Women, p. 207, 1966: Glossary of Prison Terms
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 41, 1996
- a cubic inch US
- When someone says his engine has 440 cubes, he means that his engine has a cylinder capacity of 440 cubic inches. — Ed Radlauer, Drag Racing Pix Dix, p. 15, 1970
- The GS versions were powered by the 350-cube power plant, now rated at 260 horses. — William G. Holder, American Muscle Cars, p. 10, 1992
- a work space in an open-area office UK, 1936
An abbreviation of “cubicle.” - I’ve got the manuals in my cube. — Eric S. Raymond, The New Hacker’s Dictionary, p. 115, 1991
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