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Oxo cube
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oxo cube OXO cube
English
Alternative forms
en OXO cube oxo cube
en Oxo OXO oxo
Etymology
en of Oxo (food) Oxo cube, a brand of stock cubes. The rhyming slang sense is by rhyme with en the Tube.
Noun
en UK Ireland en stock cube,bouillon cube<t:a small cube, consisting of dry ingredients, that can be dissolved to make a broth or soup stock>
Translations
dry cube of ingredients for broth or stock bouillon cube
Proper noun
1
en Cockney rhyming slang The London Underground rail network.
en 1981 Peter Wright Cockney Dialect and Slang 74 For instance, on the oxo cube 'tube' the weasler or porter has changed into the less descriptive stationman
en 1993 Verbatim 20-21 21 On the Oxo Cube to London
Derived terms
en the job is oxo up the Oxo Tower
en Nicknames