tube steak

noun

A frankfurter/hot dog.

Meanings

nountube steak (plural tube steaks)

plural tube steaks · alternative tube-steak · alternative tubesteak · alternative tube-steak

  1. CanadaUShumorousidiomaticA frankfurter/hot dog.

    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).

    2008 May 14, Lisa Donovan, “Mace has sweet, mild flavor all its own”, in Chicago Sun-Times
  2. AustraliaCanadaUSslangA penis.

    I want to slip my tube steak into your sister. What'll you take in trade?

    1987, Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford, directed by Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket, spoken by Joker (Matthew Modine)

Synonyms & antonyms

Origin

A rhyming allusion to cube steak and the item's shape.

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APA

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Chicago

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