Oxo cube

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English

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Etymology

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Rhyming slang for Tube. Oxo is a brand of stock cubes.

Proper noun

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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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