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tube
noun- a fool, an idiot; a despicable or contemptible person UK: SCOTLAND
Probably from an earlier sense as “penis”, thus PRICK. - — Michael Munro, The Original Patter, 1985
- They played me, they played everybody, so why not a tube like him? — Christopher Brookmyre, The Sacred Art of Stealing, p. 209, 2002
- a person UK: SCOTLAND
- Just keep feeding the tube this muck and he’ll be deid [dead] by Christmas. — Ian Pattison, Rab C. Nesbitt, 1988
- a marijuana cigarette US, 1937
- — Ernest L. Abel, A Marijuana Dictionary, p. 105, 1982
- a telephone US
- — Robert George Reisner, The Jazz Titans, p. 167, 1960
- a prison officer who listens to inmates’ conversation and for information from informers UK, 1950
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 117, 1996
- a can of beer AUSTRALIA, 1964
- I’ll bet old Gorty’s got a few thirst quenching tubes bodgied away in this den of his! — Barry Humphries, The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie, p. 7, 1968
- — Ivor Limb, Footy’s No Joke!, p. 77, 1986
- the concave face of a wave US
- — Grant W. Kuhns, On Surfing, p. 123, 1963
- — Paradise of the Pacific, p. 27, October 1963
- a shotgun US
- — Los Angeles Times, p. B1, 19 December 1994
- “Toss that tube!” Flotsam said, and Jetsam dropped the shotgun on the grass and scurried after his partner. — Joseph Wambaugh, Hollywood Station, p. 87, 2006
- in a casino, the rack where betting tokens are stored at a gambling table US
- — Frank Scoblete, Best Blackjack, p. 274, 1996
- a totally unnecessary breast examination UK, 1999
- — Adam T. Fox, St Mary’s Hospital, London, 10 October 2002
- an artillery piece or mortar US
- — David Hart, First Air Cavalry Division Vietnam Dictionary, p. 63, 2004
▶ down the tubes
ruined with no chances left; done-for; lost; wasted US, 1963
A variation of “down the drain” or “down the pan”; literally “down the toilet”.- Now we got hurt, we really took a beating in profits, our business almost went down the tubes[.] — Josh Alan Friedman, Tales of Times Square, p. 81, 1986
- Britain is going down the tubes! — David Parker, Cool Places, p. 74, 1998
▶ lay tube
from nthe male point of view, to have sex US- [A]bout eighty a them’s gonna lay more tube than the motherfuckin Alaska pipeline. — Joseph Wambaugh, The Delta Star, p. 37, 1983
▶ the tube
a television; television US
Originally applied to the telephone, but then much more widely to television.- — Swinging Syllables, 1959
- [T]hen we watched the tube through the late movie which ended at three. — John Nichols, The Sterile Cuckoo, p. 125, 1965
- Back at my room I feel depressed but I can’t go to bed because I only got up at 3 p.m. I’m going to be on the tube (Allen Burke called), but I’m depressed. — James Simon Kunen, The Strawberry Statement, p. 62, 1968
- When he hit the tube that night, he wasn’t giving a performance in a cummerbund. — Albert Goldman, Freak Show, p. 67, 1968
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