Tubes is internet slang for the internet itself, used mostly humorously and often referencing the infamous 2006 US Senate speech where Ted Stevens described the internet as 'a series of tubes.' That speech became an instant meme and the phrase stuck as a playful, self-aware way to refer to the web.
Tubes is internet slang for the internet itself, used mostly humorously and often referencing the infamous 2006 US Senate speech where Ted Stevens described the internet as 'a series of tubes.' That speech became an instant meme and the phrase stuck as a playful, self-aware way to refer to the web. Separately, 'the tubes' can refer to the internal workings of the body — your digestive system, respiratory tract, or other internal passages. Context makes it clear which tubes you mean.
I've been down the tubes all afternoon watching old documentary clips.
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(Internet slang, jocular) The Internet.
(Internet slang) The community of academic and studying-oriented channels on YouTube.
(British, colloquial, often capitalised as Tube, a trademark) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.).
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(slang) The inner workings of one's body.
“are they actually swinging around fluorescent tubes because the og lightsabers were like, rotoscoped but those seem to have tips on them”
“if they do it i'm going to start packing spliffs into cig tubes”
“What’s not to love! Extreme bondage potential Tubes controlling your air and nutrition Can be encased in all sorts of kinky goodness too, rubber, resin, slime, pail pamps So so good”
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(Internet slang) The Internet.
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