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語源

Genericized trademark of Oxo cube, a brand of stock cubes. The rhyming slang sense is by rhyme with the Tube.

名詞

Oxo cube (plural Oxo cubes)

1. (UK, Ireland) Synonym of stock cube or bouillon cube (“a small cube, consisting of dry ingredients, that can be dissolved to make a broth or soup stock”)

固有名詞

the Oxo cube

1. (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

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