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down the tube

down the tube is the alternative form of down the tubes.

Meaning of down the tubes

Prepositional phrase

  1. (euphemistic, idiomatic) Synonym of down the toilet: wasted; irretrievable.
    Synonyms:
    down the toilet

Words formed from down the tube

Questions about down the tube

What is down the tube the alternative form of?
Down the tube is the alternative form of down the tubes.

Words near down the tube in the dictionary

  1. down the road
  2. down the road, not across the street
  3. down the shitter
  4. down the toilet
  5. down the track
  6. down the tube
  7. down the tubes
  8. down the way
  9. down the wind
  10. down there
  11. down time

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Adapted from Wiktionary: down the tube (page history and authors); down the tubes (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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