toke
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (British) enPR: tōk, IPA(key): /təʊk/
- Rhymes: -əʊk
- (US) enPR: tōk, IPA(key): /toʊk/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊk
Etymology 1
[edit]Clipping of token.
Noun
[edit]toke (plural tokes)
Verb
[edit]toke (third-person singular simple present tokes, present participle toking, simple past and past participle toked)
- (transitive, US casino slang) To give a gratuity to.
- You have to toke the maitre d’ at least $50 if you want a really good table.
Etymology 2
[edit]Presumably from Spanish tocar (“touch”). Noun sense 1968, verb 1952.[1]
Noun
[edit]toke (plural tokes)
- (slang) A puff of marijuana.
- The artist took a thoughtful toke off the joint, then passed it along.
- (slang, by extension) An inhalation or lungful of anything.
- 2011, Tim Winton, Dirt Music:
- Back on the wards a big toke of O2 might have done the job; it was God's own pick-me-up.
Verb
[edit]toke (third-person singular simple present tokes, present participle toking, simple past and past participle toked)
- (slang) To smoke marijuana.
- Let's roll up a doobie and toke.
- 2009 August 23, Walter Kirn, “Drugs to Do, Cases to Solve”, in New York Times[1]:
- This keeps Doc’s workload relatively light, freeing him to stay stoned around the clock and live in the now, which isn’t hard for him, because he’s toked away his short-term memory.
- (slang) To inhale a puff of marijuana
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]toke (plural tokes)
- (slang, obsolete) A piece of bread.
- 1905, H. G. Wells, Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul:
- Toke and cold ground rice pudding with plums it used to be—there is no better food at all.
References
[edit]- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “toke”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams
[edit]Japanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]toke
Lindu
[edit]Noun
[edit]toke
Maori
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Polynesian *toke (compare with hōtoke, Hawaiian koʻekoʻe, Tahitian toʻetoʻe).[1]
Noun
[edit]toke
- (obsolete) cold
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]toke
Synonyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “toke” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
Middle English
[edit]Verb
[edit]toke
- first/third-person singular past indicative of taken; took
- 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41:
- "And herfore of Wicleef speciali and of these men I toke the lore whiche I haue taughte and purpose to lyue aftir, if God wole, to my lyues ende.”
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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