What is the meaning of TUNE. Phrases containing TUNE
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Female genitals or, more especially, female pubic hair, esp when related to performing oral sex on a female, e.g. "chinning the muff". (ed: the following entered verbatim) Sometime during the mid to late 1960's, in Pasadena, California USA, there was an auto muffler shop called "American Muffler". On their sign, and on gimme hats and T-shirts they sold, it said, "American Muffler - the friendly muffler shop - "No Muff Too Tough... We Dive 'Till 5". By 1970 the shop changed hands, and the motto was painted out, never to be seen again. There was, at the time, a very tall, buff butch Lesbian working there. However, she didn't do mufflers, only tune-ups and oil changes. She was very good with the sucky Lucas electricals of the egregious English cars that infested California at the time, especially MG's and Jag's. I can't tell her name but she is still about.
 An epithet for any ill-played or discordant piece of music.
n. the state of being in absolute control and totally in tune with your bike, the trail, and your physical strength. "I was just doing it all so smoothly and delicately and quickly, it was nirvana!" Synonym for The Zone.
Means 'really jolly good'. Used to excess by Peter Powell on his Radio 1 show to describe his favoured tunes of the time. , Peter Powell also coined the wonderful phrase 'Triple Wow'. Priceless! (ed: iirc he also used 'hello mate' ad nauseum too.)
Someone or something that runs, operates or performs poorly. 2. A term applied to an out of tune motor transport vehicle
Loony tune is slang for a mad or eccentric person.
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Tune in is slang for to make or become more aware, knowledgeable, etc. about something.
Buttocks. An unusual word heard on U.S. sitcoms but with an obscure derivation. One guess was of a corruption of the German word "Hind" (similarly with the word "hinterland). Use of the word can be controversial. Parents use it, e.g. to tell a child "You'll get a smack on your hiney!! Also used in a friendly way to refer to a man's butt, When it's used to refer to a woman's (especially attractive, etc.) behind, then it has a very definite sexually suggestive connotation to it ("woman-child"), and the word used in that context appears to be fairly unacceptable. (ed: I asked for any counter arguments). Caroline writes: I think it is a shortening of "hind end", but it's used a lot in Southern USA. Here is a schoolyard rhyme: I see your hiney so black and shiny, You better hide it before I bite it!" The following fairly comprehensive description of the word in use was sent in by John Gaither from Athens Georgia US: It is (or was, when I was in the single-digit years, before 1965) common in south Georgia, in the southeastern US. Among me and my friends (European Americans) the rhyme was: "I see your hiney So black and shiny It makes me giggle To see it wiggle." My wife (African American) recalls it thus: "I see your hiney So bright and shiny. . . ." The occasion for its recitation was when someone's "hind" end was partly or fully exposed, either by circumstance or design. It was slightly pejorative, as if the singer was laughing at or mocking the person exposed; using the word "black" fits in with this, as calling someone black was also a derogatory statement (for Americans of either European or African ancestry). I conjecture an African American origin, or association with African Americans, from the word "black." (As you may or may not know, skin pigmentation among African Americans is in fact usually darker on the buttocks and the back of the thighs; cf. "kiss my black ass."). It was always sung to the same tune, which makes me wonder if the rhyme originated in some kind of vaudeville or minstrel show, where American performers of European ancestry sometimes wore blackface and used the exaggerated mannerisms and accents of African Americans to comic effect. The rhythm and tune are as follows, as best as I can render it. three eighth-notes, quarter note, dotted quarter note three eighth-notes, quarter note, dotted quarter note (repeat) C-C-C-C-A C-C-C-C-G C-C-C-C-A C-C-C-C-G
To flirt. Usually only used when a male is doing the flirting. "She was a nice girl, I tuned her a bit."
Bar with spherical correcting magnets. Found on a binnacle, its role is to fine-tune the accuracy of the compass.
A playground taunt in the form of a song sung to the tune of the "conga" i.e. "Let's all go to Tesco's Where [Johnny, Marky, whatever] gets his best clothes, a la la la, a la la la! Taunt implies the tauntees parents couldn't afford 'swish' stuff. Note: for those outside the UK that don't know, Tesco's is a huge supermarket chain which was at one time "famous" for selling cheap imported clothing of dubious quality. As an aside, I always understood that the company had been named after the founders wife - Tess Cohen, but from another source (Michael Oliver) I learn it was in fact created from a combination of TES (from T.E. Stockwell, Cohen's partner) and CO (from CO-hen)). You live and learn!
It wasn't unusual for our school to have foreign exchange students on a fairly regular basis. If it was learnt that any of these children were German, they were pointed at and had the following song chanted at them: Two world wars and one world cup, doo dah, doo dah. Two world wars and one world cup, doo dah, doo dah day. This was more than likely a football song. Aston Villa fans currently sing "HUNDRED YEARS AND WON FUCK ALL" about Birmingham City, using the same tune. It is important to realise that rather than just being racist, the song gained a specific potency in the aftermath of the 1990 world cup. No doubt it was trotted out after Euro '96 also, but this needs confirming!
Loony tunes is slang for a mad or eccentric person.
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n.
A rhythmical, melodious, symmetrical series of tones for one voice or instrument, or for any number of voices or instruments in unison, or two or more such series forming parts in harmony; a melody; an air; as, a merry tune; a mournful tune; a slow tune; a psalm tune. See Air.
n.
The largest instrument of the bass-viol kind, having strings tuned an octave below those of the violoncello; the contrabasso; -- called also double bass.
v. t.
To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
n.
Repetition of a theme or melody with fanciful embellishments or modifications, in time, tune, or harmony, or sometimes change of key; the presentation of a musical thought in new and varied aspects, yet so that the essential features of the original shall still preserve their identity.
v. t.
To put into a state adapted to produce the proper sounds; to harmonize, to cause to be in tune; to correct the tone of; as, to tune a piano or a violin.
v. t.
To make incapable of harmony, or of harmonious action; to put out of tune.
a.
Harmonious; melodious; musical; as, tuneful notes.
n.
Order; harmony; concord; fit disposition, temper, or humor; right mood.
a.
Not employed in making music; as, tuneless harps.
v. t.
To put into a proper state or disposition.
imp. & p. p.
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p. pr. & vb. n.
of Tune
v. t.
To sing with melody or harmony.
n.
The state of giving the proper, sound or sounds; just intonation; harmonious accordance; pitch of the voice or an instrument; adjustment of the parts of an instrument so as to harmonize with itself or with others; as, the piano, or the organ, is not in tune.
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Not expressed in music or poetry; unsung.
v. i.
To form one sound to another; to form accordant musical sounds.
v. i.
To utter inarticulate harmony with the voice; to sing without pronouncing words; to hum.
n.
One who tunes; especially, one whose occupation is to tune musical instruments.
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Without tune; inharmonious; unmusical.
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