Meanings
nountest-tube (plural test-tubes)
plural test-tubes
- alternativeAlternative form of test tube.
Again, he was watching Terryterry’s women, the two little girls with their stunts on the slide and the swing, the mum in the kitchen tapping on the glass above the sink, like any mum anywhere, which was probably how she saw herself, no babymamma, no hired box or Quacko test-tube.
1995, Martin Amis, [chapter 22], in The Information, London: Flamingo, →ISBN, part 4, page 412
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