cubie

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noun

One of the smaller cubes making up a Rubik's cube.

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Meanings

nouncubie (plural cubies)

plural cubies

  1. Rubik's CubeOne of the smaller cubes making up a Rubik's cube.

    Each nine-cubie face is capable of being rotated en bloc.

    2003, Victor Percy Snaith, Groups, Rings and Galois Theory
    2 more examples

    […] you can see that the corner cubie in question is detachable […]

    1981, Scientific American

    Each of the tiles is actually part of a small cube, or cubie.

    1989, Dennis Merritt, Building Expert Systems in Prolog
  2. firefightingA five-gallon, boxed, plastic bag of drinking water used by firefighters.

Origin

From cube + -ie.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with cubie

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Anagrams

BuiceBeciu
Cite this entry
APA

cubie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cubie

MLA

“cubie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cubie. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cubie,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cubie.

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