Tubular Edit Meaning

1.

used mostly in the 80's, or by people mocking the 80's to describe something 'awesome' or 'excelent' ie, good.

teenage mutant ninja turtles say -

'that's totally tubular dudette'

See taylor

2.

A slightly outdated term from the 80's used to describe something cool. Stems from the vaccuum tubes in electric guitar amplifiers producing a "tubular" sound rather than the bland tinny sound of the solid-state (transistor) amplifiers which came out in the 80's.

"Oh man, that riff was totally tubular!"

See funky, groovy, bassy, rockin', rollin'

3.

From 1986....Sufer way to say cool. Relates to the tube a wave forms when cresting. First started in the Maplewood/South Orange Area of NJ and moved up and down East coast surfer comunity. Was in use in the west coast by 1988.

Dude...thats is so tubular I want to yark!

See funk, fresh, carey, cool, yark, yazoo

4.

Tubular is in referance to surfing in the barrel. the tube. getting in a tube is awesome, hence the word tubular : )

That ride was tubular man. Did you catch that?!

After that surf we need some tubular tucker..

See barrel, tube, surf, ride, ocean

5.

Late 70s and 80sslang, adj. As groovyand as it gets. Too coolto be just a passing fad, like saying tubular turned out to be.

Derived from a way cool 1973 album, titled Tubular Bells, by Mike Oldfield.

Vals picked up the word and that was the death of saying tubular. If it weren't for so many Vals saying, like tubular that other people associated it with Valspeak, people wouldn't have become afraid to continue saying tubular when Valspeak went out of style.

Even now, Peeps are still groovingto Tubular Bells, and they figured out by the 80s that it wasn't just a passing fad, so anything groovy enough to outlast a fadbecame tubular. It's too bad saying tubular wasn't tubular.

See cool, groovy, awesome, groovey, valspeak

6.

Very cool. Rad. surfer lingo Term is from Maplewood N.J. the East Coast usage stopped by the early 90's, but became very popular term in the West Coast.

That long board is totaly tubular.

See rad, cool, carey, sweet, nice, ice, chill, gravy

7.

A once-popular expression meaning, essentially, 'really cool'. Synonymous with far outand awesome. Rarely used these days, except as a joke.

Dude, the new (insert band) album is totally tubular!

See cool, awesome, far out, tubuler, way cool, neat, dumb, stupid, annoying, boring, dull