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tube verb- to watch television US
- Jane and I, and Deil and Pat, and Brad and Laura (who’s old enough to drive) went tubing after dinner[] — Beatrice Sparks (writing an “Ananymous”), p. 56, 1979: Jay’s Journal
- — Concord (New Hampshire) Monitor, 23 August 1983: “Slang slinging: an intense and awesome guide to prep school slanguage”
- to surf below and inside the crest of the wave US
- LANCE: Maybe he’ll get tubed. WILLARD: What? LANCE: Maybe he’ll get inside the tube – where – where they can’t see him. — Apocalypse Now, 1979
- to insert an endotracheal tube into a patient UK
Medical use. - We’ve bronched him, tubed him, bagged him, [and] cathed him. — Diane Johnson, Doctor Talk, The State of the Language, 1980
- to fail, to do poorly US
- — Current Slang, p. 5, Summer 1966
- — American Speech, p. 68, Spring-Summer 1975: “Razorback Slang”
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