Oxo cube
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Rhyming slang for Tube. Oxo is a brand of stock cubes.
Proper noun
[edit]the Oxo cube
- (Cockney rhyming slang) The London Underground rail network.
- 1981, Peter Wright, Cockney Dialect and Slang, page 74:
- For instance, on the oxo cube 'tube' the weasler or porter has changed into the less descriptive stationman […]
- 1993, Verbatim, volumes 20-21, page 21:
- On the Oxo Cube to London