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English

Pronunciation
IPA|/tju�b/ (RP), /tu�b/ (US)
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-u�b|-u�b

Noun
en-noun

1. Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
2. An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semi-liquid substances.

#: A tube of toothpaste.

1. London|colloquial 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 rectangular section tunnels.

#: No mate, I am taking the tube!

1. Australian|slang A tin can containing beer (or other beverage?)

#* 1995, Sue Butler, Lonely Planet Australian Phrasebook: Language Survival Kit
#*: Tinnie: a tin of beer � also called a tube.
#* 2002, Andrew Swaffer, Katrina O'Brien, Darroch Donald, Footprint Australia Handbook: The Travel Guide [text repeated in Footprint West Coast Australia Handbook (2003)]
#*: Beer is also available from bottleshops (or bottle-o's') in cases (or 'slabs') of 24-36 cans (�tinnies' or �tubes') or bottles (�stubbies') of 375 ml each.
#* 2004, Paul Matthew St. Pierre, Portrait of the Artist as Australian: L'Oeuvre Bizarre de Barry Humphries
#*: That Humphries should imply that, in the Foster's ads, Hogan's ocker appropriated McKenzie?'s discourse (specifically the idiom "crack an ice-cold tube") reinforces my contention.

1. surfing A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
2. US|colloquial A television. Also, derisively, boob tube.

#: Are you just going to sit around all day and watch the tube?

Usage notes
Use for beer can was popularised in UK by a long-running series of advertisements for Foster's lager, where Paul Hogan used a phrase "crack an ice-cold tube" previously associated with Barry Humphries' character Barry McKenzie?. (For discussion of this see Paul Matthew St. Pierre's book cited above.)]

Derived terms

cathode ray tube
Fallopian tube
inner tube
intubate
picture tube
mid
test tube
tubing
tuboplasty
tubular
vacuum tube

Translations
trans-top|a pipe
Albanian: tub m
Catalan: tub m
Chinese Characters: 管
Chinese: 管
Croatian: cijev f
Czech: roura f, trubka f
Dutch: buis f
Finnish: putki
French: tuyau m
German: Rohr n, Röhre f
Greek: ��λήνα� m (s�l�nas)
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Hungarian: cs�
Italian: tubo
Japanese: 管
Korean: ê´�
Polish: rura f
Portuguese: tubo m
Russian: ���ба, ���бка
Slovak: rura f, trubica f
Slovenian: cev f
Spanish: tubo m, canuto m
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trans-top|the London underground
Finnish: metro
French: le métro londonien m
German: U-Bahn f, Untergrundbahn f, Metro f
trans-mid
Italian: il metro di Londra m
Polish: londyn|londy�skie metro
Russian: лондон�кий|лондон�кое ме��о
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trans-top|a tin can
French: boîte (de bière) f
trans-mid
Italian: barattolo (di birra) m
Russian: банка
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See also
w:Tube|Wikipedia article on tubes

French

Noun
tube m

1. pipe
2. #English|tube
3. music a hit#Noun|hit
4. (slang) Money

Pronunciation
w:IPA|IPA: /tyb/
w:SAMPA|SAMPA: /tyb/

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