Tube steak
noun
a hot dog; frankfurter
Usage Note
cooking slang
tube, the
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- Tube time
Time spent at a terminal or console. More inclusive than hacking time; commonly used in discussions of what parts of one’s environment one uses most heavily. “I find I’m spending too much of my tube time reading mail since I started this revision.” [Jargon File]
- Tube-top
noun 1. a woman’s strapless top, usually of elasticized fabric that fits snugly on the body.
- Tubeworm
noun, Zoology. 1. any of various marine worms that produce and inhabit a tube, some being adapted to a hydrothermal vent environment.
- Tubi-
1. a combining form representing tube, in compound words: tubiform.
- Tubicolous
adjective 1. living in a self-constructed tube, as a marine worm. adjective 1. (of certain invertebrate animals) living in a self-constructed tube