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1) n. In New England, it is a brass musical instument, conical in construction, about 18 feet long, with a large mouthpiece, and is the lowest of the brass instruments. It replaced the ophiclede in the symphony orchestra, and has nothing to do with Wagner Tubas. It has only one direct cousin in brass instruments, that being the fluglehorn, for all other brass instruments are more cylindrical than the tuber, even the french horn.
2) n. For the rest of the English-speaking world, it is a fleshy-rooted plant like a potato or a yam. Hence, New Englanders and Non-New Englanders can get confused at times, as evidenced below.
An actual conversation:
Denny: Dan, can you play the tuber for the Bristol, RI band next weekend?
Dan: Well Denny, do you want me to play 1st or 2nd potato?
tuber by Dan1271 November 13, 2007
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Tuberculosis

A disease that killed the most Bad ass character in Red Dead Redemption 2
Arthur: We are not a charity

Man: Spits on Arthur

That’s how he got tuberculosis

Tik-Tuber 

A person from or on TikTok that post's their cringe on YouTube
1: Hey did you see that new Tik-Tuber

2: How the hell would I know you didn’t specify the person there’s like a thousand

1: Oh well nevermind
Tik-Tuber by ThatDeadsoulGuyyt July 21, 2021

Tuber simulator 

A still relevant game for mobiles and the game is available for free and that’s a great price
WHHHHAAATTTT!!! You’ve never played tuber simulator??
-PewDiePie

Tommy Tuberville 

Quite possibly the dumbest motherfucker to ever have a seat in the United States senate.

A former Auburn football coach (and an awful one at that) that ran for Senate in Alabama despite knowing absolutely fuck all about politics. He is incapable of identifying the three branches of government in the United States, doesn't even know the reason why the U.S. fought in World War II, and rejects the January 6th commission "until they make it bipartisan", despite the commission already being bipartisan.

Only voted in because Alabama voters only care whether or not a candidate has an 'R' after their name, as long as said candidate doesn't have credible pedophile accusations against them. (see Roy Moore)
Noteworthy Tommy Tuberville moments:

-Claims the Jan. 6th insurrection "should've never happened" and was not justified (which is true, but...), despite one of his first orders of business being to try to overturn the 2020 election results and being complicit prior to this statement.

-In an interview, stated “Our government wasn’t set up for one group to have all three branches of government — wasn’t set up that way. You know, the House, the Senate, and the executive.”

-Claims his father fought in World War II “liberating Paris from socialism and communism.”

As time goes on, there's bound to be more. Alabama deserves better than this, but sadly, not much can be done when voters are stupid enough to vote for people like Tuberville. To think an actual politician like Doug Jones was voted out in favor of this clown.

TunerCar 

When talking about vehicles, a TunerCar is a vehicle with modifications and replaced OEM (original engine manufacture) parts. Sometimes swapped with custom or performance oriented upgrades or even changing parts to make a more powerful and efficient vehicle; tuned. Most have a form of forced induction and go pop whilst shooting aggressive flames! Usually seen on the streets as opposed to official race tracks.

As of 1995, production vehicles must meet the OBDII protocol and thanks to this advancement in technology, most modern day vehicles can also be tuned (optimal programming values) via Software adjustment. This is also considered tuning of TunerCar's..

Major gains can be implemented via software modification.

After mechanical(hardware) upgrades and custom software tuning (a computer flash) to supplement the new vehicle characteristics; YOUR CAR WILL DESTROY THE ROAD AND EVERYTHING AROUND IT!!! {your fines will cost as much as your dyno flash bro}
We us the word "tune" -> "to adjust" or "to change" something from factory specification.

Word on the street:
People call fast Japanese cars "tuner cars"

People call fast American cars "muscle cars"

if you want street credit - get street credit
Man, did you see that TunerCar?
-No dude but i heard it go pop!

That tunercar backfired....
-man thats his tune, dawg... you see he is running it kinda rich, probably over lubricating his seals but hey, when the un-burnt gas hits his Hottt exhaust, it ignites and goes bang!

ohh, cool.. so it doesn't hurt it?
-not at all tinytuner, infact a backfire is harmless to engines and engine control... however; prefire (or preignition) is quite the opposite and can destroy an engine instantly.
TunerCar by UrbanTuner December 8, 2018
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