cube n.2
an extreme conservative, an ultra-respectable person.
 | N.Y. Amsterdam Star-News 27 Sept. 15: The kid is such a ‘solid square’ that I’ve coined the name ‘Cube’ for that variety. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | USA Confidential 186: When the cubes are rolling in the county area the most popular places are Wolhurst. | |
| ‘Bop Dict.’ in Mad mag. Mar. 20: Cube – a 3-D square. | |
| Teen-Age Mafia 52: I see you know how to handle the stuff [i.e. marijuana], baby. Maybe you ain’t the cube I thought you was. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Through Beatnik Eyeballs 26: Up till now I been a made-up cube. | |
| Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1969) 408: The New Dimensions finish their set and they’re mad as hell, of course. What . . . cube was doing that screaming bit, f’r chrissake. | |
| ‘The Kinetic Element in Black Idiom’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out 164: Earlier terms such as ‘square’ and ‘cube’ also reinforced the settled and immobile quality of the persons so designated. |
In derivatives
the fig. ‘world’ or mindset of ultra-conservative, highly respectable people.
| World of Paul Slickey Act II: He’s strictly from Cubesville. | |
| ‘Yulesville’ in Bench Racer at r.webring.com 🌐 His threads were from Cubesville and I had to chuckle, / In front, not in back, was his Ivy league buckle! |
(US) extremely conventional.
| Young Savages [film script] Mother, you can be such a drag sometimes, so utterly cubistic. |