tube steak

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

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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.

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