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going down the tubes

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.93 in modern English

Syllables
go-ing -down the -tubes
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of go down the tubes

Questions

What does going down the tubes mean?
present participle and gerund of go down the tubes

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