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  • noun Plural form of tubful.

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Examples

  • Running through the subway necking cyan booze cola; slaying each other for their Sony PSPs; hanging round Facebook getting into trouble; eating tubfuls of meow-meow with a stolen spoon.

    Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: Amish: The World's Squarest Teenagers 2010

  • Wash days were particularly demanding, as tubfuls of water had to be transported and boiled on the stove before soiled washing was added, together with soap that the women had made from fatpork and wood ashes from the grate. 41 On fine days in the summer, however, women often took their washing directly to the sides of ponds and rivers and did their scrubbing on the rocks.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • The precious water came down in bucketfuls and tubfuls, and in two hours we caught and stored away in the tanks one hundred and twenty gallons.

    Chapter 9 1913

  • The precious water came down in bucketfuls and tubfuls, and in two hours we caught and stored away in the tanks one hundred and twenty gallons.

    Chapter 9 1911

  • They could all have lived on salad, would have treated themselves to tubfuls.

    L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871

  • It came down on my head in tubfuls, sent an electric thrill through one's muscles, and a good rub sent every trace of stiffness out of my legs.

    Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills George Manville Fenn 1870

  • When he sneezed, it was whole When he muttered, it was lawyers 'tubfuls of mustard. revels.

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

  • Robert Pattinson is a great big stinking bumguff who brushes his teeth with clods of animal dung, takes baths in tubfuls of steaming gypsy piss and wipes his bottom with other people's dirty bottoms (we're paraphrasing), Robert Pattinson has gone on the offensive to tell everyone that he does wash now and then, as it happens.

    Hecklerspray 2009

  • Because, following last week’s reports from sources on the New Moon set claiming that Robert Pattinson is a great big stinking bumguff who brushes his teeth with clods of animal dung, takes baths in tubfuls of steaming gypsy piss and wipes his bottom with other people’s dirty bottoms we’re paraphrasing, Robert Pattinson has gone on the offensive to tell everyone that he does wash now and then, as it happens.

    Official: Robert Pattinson Smells Like A Binbag Full Of Dirty Nappies 2009

  • When he sneezed, it was whole When he muttered, it was lawyers’ tubfuls of mustard. revels.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

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