Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To sound a horn or whistle in short blasts.
- intransitive verb To make the sound of a horn or whistle blown in short blasts or a sound resembling it.
- intransitive verb Slang To snort cocaine.
- intransitive verb To blow or sound (a horn or whistle).
- intransitive verb To sound (a blast, for example) on a horn or whistle.
- intransitive verb Slang To snort (cocaine).
- noun A blast, as of a horn.
- noun Slang A drinking binge.
- noun Slang Cocaine, especially a small amount snorted at one time.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A lazy, worthless person.
- noun The devil.
- To project; stand, stick, or bulge out.
- To shoot up, as plants.
- To become visible; peep out; show.
- To glance; peer; look; gaze; pore.
- Hence, to look or search narrowly; pry inquisitively.
- To try; endeavor.
- To see; behold; observe.
- To blow a horn, a whistle, or other windinstrument; especially, to produce harsh or discordant sounds with a horn, cornet, trumpet, whistle, or the like.
- To give out sound, as a wind-instrument when blown: usually a word of disparagement.
- To make sounds like those of a horn or a steam-whistle; trumpet.
- Specifically, to call: said of some grouse.
- To whine; cry.
- To sound on a horn, trumpet, pipe, or the like.
- To blow, as an instrument of sound.
- noun A sound made by blowing on a wind-instrument; a note as of a horn; a blast.
- noun A blow-out; a spree: as, to go on a toot.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To see; to spy.
- intransitive verb obsolete To stand out, or be prominent.
- intransitive verb obsolete To peep; to look narrowly.
- intransitive verb To blow or sound a horn; to make similar noise by contact of the tongue with the root of the upper teeth at the beginning and end of the sound; also, to give forth such a sound, as a horn when blown.
- transitive verb To cause to sound, as a horn, the note being modified at the beginning and end as if by pronouncing the letter t; to blow; to sound.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The noise of a
horn orwhistle . - noun by extension, informal A
fart ; aflatus . - noun uncountable, slang
Cocaine . - noun informal A
spree ofdrunkness . - verb To
stand out , or beprominent . - verb To
peep ; to looknarrowly . - verb To
see ; tospy . - verb To
flatulate . - verb of a horn or whistle To make the
sound of ahorn orwhistle . - verb To cause a horn or whistle to make its sound.
- verb To go on a drinking
binge .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make a loud noise
- noun revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party
- noun a blast of a horn
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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At the time of the phone call to Brown-Waite, Pidrman said he was on a "toot" -- or drinking binge, which was caused by the stress of having a house guest at the time.
Blogposts | guardian.co.uk Michael Tomasky 2010
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At the time of the phone call to Brown-Waite, Pidrman said he was on a "toot" -- or drinking binge, which was caused by the stress of having a house guest at the time.
Blogposts | guardian.co.uk Michael Tomasky 2010
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At the time of the phone call to Brown-Waite, Pidrman said he was on a "toot" -- or drinking binge, which was caused by the stress of having a house guest at the time.
Blogposts | guardian.co.uk Michael Tomasky 2010
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At the time of the phone call to Brown-Waite, Pidrman said he was on a "toot" -- or drinking binge, which was caused by the stress of having a house guest at the time.
Blogposts | guardian.co.uk Michael Tomasky 2010
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That word toot reminds me of a little ditty we used to sing as children:
Qwaider Planet 2010
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That word toot reminds me of a little ditty we used to sing as children:
Qwaider Planet 2010
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That word toot reminds me of a little ditty we used to sing as children:
Qwaider Planet 2010
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Dear Heloise: Most new cars have the electronic door locks that "toot" the horn if the car is relocked.
Hints From Heloise 2010
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If you don't remember the location of your car, just "toot" the horn a couple of times using the lock button on the key fob.
Hints From Heloise 2010
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I've freshened it up a tad or a "toot" with the French equivalent of "toodeloo!" ...
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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It has most of the basic functionality you get with Twitter (known on Mastodon as “the birdsite”): It has a timeline or “feed” made up of what are essentially tweets, called “toots,” posted by the users you follow.
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MaryW commented on the word toot
Betty Smith, Maggie-Now (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958), p. 381 (The setting is Brooklyn, a few years after World War I.)September 11, 2018