tube | |
1. n. Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape. | |
2. n. An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances. | |
A tube of toothpaste. | |
3. n. (UK, colloquial, often capitalized as Tube) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in r | |
I took the tube to Waterloo and walked the rest of the way. | |
4. n. (Australia, slang) A tin can containing beer (or other beverage?). | |
5. n. (surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside. | |
6. n. (North America, colloquial) A television. Also, derisively, boob tube. British: telly. | |
Are you just going to sit around all day and watch the tube? | |
7. n. (Scotland) Idiot. | |
8. v. To make or use tubes | |
She tubes lipstick. | |
They tubed down the Colorado River. | |
9. v. (medicine, colloquial) To intubate | |
patient is tubed | |