1. The lowest-pitched member of the tuba family, pitched in BBb or CC, distinguished by a bore so wide and a bell so flared that the instrument, viewed from behind, reads less as a musical apparatus and more as a load-bearing column that has decided to attend the concert.
2.colloq. Furniture that plays. Rests in its case like a throne nobody dared sit in, occupying more square footage than the instrument beside it has opinions. The bell is the point. The tubing is just how you get there.
In a sentence:
"The principal tubist wheeled a thiccc contrabass tuba through the stage door on a furniture dolly borrowed from the loading dock. The stagehands moved aside not out of courtesy but out of structural instinct."
Etymology:
From Latin contra-, meaning 'against' or 'below' (as in, below the bass, below reason, below what the floor was rated for), and tuba, the Latin word for a straight military trumpet used by Roman legions. The Romans used theirs to signal cavalry charges. This one signals that the floor joists should have been inspected.
Yes. Contrabass Tuba was admitted to the Thiccctionary on May 16, 2026 and filed in the Musical Instruments section. The ruling on file: Admitted, with a footnote. Every subject in the catalogue is judged on its curves, not its size.
What makes a contrabass tuba thiccc?
Furniture that plays. Rests in its case like a throne nobody dared sit in, occupying more square footage than the instrument beside it has opinions. The bell is the point. The tubing is just how you get there.
Is "thiccc" spelled with three c's?
Yes. The Thiccctionary house spelling uses three c's, distinguishing the editorial register from the colloquial "thicc" (two c's) and standard "thick" (one c).
