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Tube en · PROPN

Meanings

1. (informal) The London Underground.
   • But 'Tube' is used as shorthand for the whole network, not least by London Underground itself, [...] It tends to be older people who hold on to the distinction. A friend of mine was visiting his mother who lives about 500 yards from Parsons Green station on the District, which is a cut-and-cover line [not a tube line]. At the end of the evening she said, "How are you getting back?" He said, "Oh, on the Tube", and she looked at him absolutely blankly. "What Tube?" she said, "There is no Tube here." 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page unnumbered: A note on the title:
   • Still, it’s not just the decline of civilisation that worries me, nor the (related) effect on Tube manners (Candy Crushers are rarely very chivalrous). 2014 March 26, Richard Goodwin, “Candy Crush is the crystal meth of the commute”, in Evening Standard, page 17:

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Deriveds

tube train

Translations (17)

sw mrija (informal: the London underground) · ko 튜브 (informal: the London underground) · ja ロンドン地下鉄 (informal: the London underground) · ko 런던 지하철 (informal: the London underground) · fr le métro londonien (informal: the London underground) · hu metró (informal: the London underground) · nl metro (informal: the London underground) · fi Lontoon metro (informal: the London underground) · it la metropolitana di Londra (informal: the London underground) · es metro (informal: the London underground) · ja チューブ (informal: the London underground) · fi metro (informal: the London underground) · de Londoner Metro (informal: the London underground) · ru ло́ндонское метро́ (informal: the London underground) · cmn 倫敦地鐵 /伦敦地铁 (informal: the London underground) · de Londoner U-Bahn (informal: the London underground) · pl metro w Londynie (informal: the London underground)