tube steak

See also: tube-steak

English

Alternative forms

• tube-steak

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

tube steak (plural tube steaks)

1. (chiefly Canada, US, idiomatic, humorous) A frankfurter/hot dog.
   • 2008 May 14, Lisa Donovan, “Mace has sweet, mild flavor all its own”, in Chicago Sun-Times:

     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).

2. (slang, North America, Australia) A penis.
   • 1987, Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford, directed by Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket, spoken by Joker (Matthew Modine):

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

Alternative forms

• tube-steak
• tubesteak

Synonyms

• hot dog
• frankfurter

References

• “tube steak”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.