tube steak
See also: tube-steak
English
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Etymology
A rhyming allusion to cube steak and the item's shape.
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Noun
tube steak (plural tube steaks)
- (chiefly Canada, US, idiomatic, humorous) A frankfurter/hot dog.
- 2008 May 14, Lisa Donovan, “Mace has sweet, mild flavor all its own”, in Chicago Sun-Times:
- She said it's often used in doughnuts and American hot dogs (solving at least a minuscule part of the what's-in-a-tube-steak mystery).
- (slang, North America, Australia)A penis.
- 1987, Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford, directed by Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket, spoken by Joker (Matthew Modine):
- I want to slip my tube steak into your sister. What'll you take in trade?
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- “tube steak”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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