tube

Etymology
From, from , related to , of obscure ultimate origin, but possibly connected to , see there.

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 semiliquid substances.
 * 3)  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. (Often the tube.)
 * 4)  One of the tubular tunnels of the London Underground.
 * 5)  A tin can containing beer.
 * 6) * 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 375ml each.
 * 1)  A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
 * 2)  A television. Compare  and.
 * 3)  An idiot.
 * 1) * 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 375ml each.
 * 1)  A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
 * 2)  A television. Compare  and.
 * 3)  An idiot.
 * 1)  A television. Compare  and.
 * 2)  An idiot.
 * 1)  An idiot.
 * 1)  An idiot.
 * 1)  An idiot.

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.)

Hyponyms

 * See also Thesaurus:tube

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: مَاسُورَة, أُنْبُوب
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: tubu
 * Basque: tutu
 * Belarusian: труба́
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მილი
 * German: ,
 * Alemannic German: Schluuch
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σωλήν
 * Hawaiian: ʻohe
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: rör
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , ,
 * Khmer: ទុយយោ,
 * Korean:, 튜브
 * Lao: ກະບອກ
 * Latin: tubus
 * Maori: ngongo
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Ottoman Turkish: لوله, ناو
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Schlauch
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: anku
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ције̑в, це̑в
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: rura,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik:, лула
 * Tamil:
 * Tarifit: ajeɛbub
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai: ,
 * Tok Pisin: mambu
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: труба́
 * Vietnamese:
 * Zulu: ithumbu


 * Arabic: أُنْبُوبَة
 * Bulgarian: ту́ба
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hawaiian: ʻohe
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 튜브
 * Persian: تیوب
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Vietnamese:, ,


 * Finnish:
 * French: canette (de bière)
 * Galician:
 * Hungarian: (sör)
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, latinha
 * Russian:
 * Swahili:
 * Vietnamese: lon thiếc

Verb

 * 1)  To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.
 * 2) To ride an inner tube.
 * 3)  To intubate.
 * 1)  To intubate.
 * 1)  To intubate.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) pipe
 * 2)  a
 * 3)  money
 * 1)  money
 * 1)  money

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) conduit; canal; pipe

Noun

 * 1) wanker, asshole, dickhead