Idiom
tube steak
Meaning
A frankfurter/hot dog.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“We grilled some tube steak for lunch.”
“The kids were hungry after the game, so we stopped at the stand for some tube steak.”
“The roadside diner served a surprisingly decent tube steak, despite the rather unappealing appearance of the establishment.”
Examples
simple
“We grilled some tube steak for lunch.”
contextual
“The kids were hungry after the game, so we stopped at the stand for some tube steak.”
complex
“The roadside diner served a surprisingly decent tube steak, despite the rather unappealing appearance of the establishment.”
Origin
A rhyming allusion to cube steak, derived from the item's cylindrical shape.
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