Green’s Dictionary of Slang

toot n.1

[Scot. tout, to drink copiously, to take a large draught, thus ext. to drug use]

1. (also tout) a drinking match.

A. Shirrefs Poems 36: Gloss. Tout, [...] a drinking match .

2. (also tooterino, tout) a drunken binge or spree; usu. in phr. on a/the toot, also in fig. use; later use embraces drugs (see cite 2016).

[UK]A. Shirrefs Poems 36: Gloss. Tout, a drinking-bout.
[Aus]Dead Bird (Sydney) 13 Dec. 1/2: An irreverent wag wrote below a picture of Gabriel blowing the last horn, ‘Off on a toot’.
[US]C.H. Hoyt Trip to Chinatown Act III: Drunk as a boiled owl! I knew everybody else was on a toot, so I filled up!
[US]A.H. Lewis ‘Hamilton Finnerty’s Heart’ Sandburrs 63: A good toot will be d’ t’ing to allay me natural uneasiness.
[US]Ade Forty Modern Fables 93: So they went on a Toot of the High-Lonesome Variety.
[US]Nebraska State Jrnl (Lincoln, NE) 14 June 9/5: The book [...] was all on the side of the hearthstone, and agin him on the tooterino question.
[Aus]Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 13 Apr. 2/4: When first I met him [...] his daughter was earning a hundred a weeK, and life was a continuous toot.
[US]Van Loan ‘On Account of a Lady’ Taking the Count 124: One of de regular waiters is out on a toot.
[US]J. Black You Can’t Win (2000) 148: When she ‘went on a toot’ the town marshal went fishing or hunting, and her more timid business rivals closed their places.
[US]E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 26: He won’t never go on a real toot around here.
[UK]Wodehouse Uncle Fred in the Springtime 28: ‘[H]e was planning to go on a toot the moment my back was turned’.
[US]E. Wilson 7 Sept. [synd. col.] Some of the datelines could read not ‘En route with Dewey’ but ‘On a toot with Dewey’.
[US]M. Spillane One Lonely Night 65: She smelt a toot coming up.
[US]S. Allen Bop Fables 66: Jack, who was no astute galoot, went on a toot with a local beaut.
[US]M. Rumaker Exit 3 and Other Stories 77: I mean when you’re off on a toot and ain’t careful.
[US](con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 260: You two guys sure had yourselves a toot.
[US]E. Thompson Garden of Sand (1981) 434: That’s a bunch of rumdumbs on a toot.
[US](con. 1940s) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 230: His uncle had always spoken as if words were a penny apiece and he was saving up for some secret loquacious toot.
[US]J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 185: Next time you go on a toot come on up.
[US](con. early 1950s) J. Ellroy L.A. Confidential 185: Stensland on toot at Raincheck Room, 3871 W. Gage.
[US]J. Ellroy ‘Hot-Prowl Rape-O’ Destination: Morgue! (2004) 310: ‘Where’s Wino Weinberger? We’re old friends.’ [...] ‘Try Skid Row. I heard Wino’s on a toot down there.’.
M. Carey ‘Bad News’ 164: [H]e had slipped badly, having gone on a coke toot with two fellow addicts.

3. (also tout) a swallow of a drink, a drink.

[UK]A. Shirrefs Jamie and Bess I ii: I ken my Simon has o’er mickle sense, When he is sober, e’er to gi’e offence [...] But, then, anither tout may change his mind.
[US]‘O. Henry’ ‘The Octopus Marooned’ Gentle Grafter (1915) 7: Bird City hoppd out of its nest, waggd its pin feathers and strolled out for its matutinal toot.
[US]S. Longstreet Pedlocks (1971) 58: Joseph had bought the broncs for forty dollars and a jug of squirrel whisky (‘two toots – stranger – and you climb trees’).
[US]Baker et al. CUSS 212: Toot A beer.

4. cocaine.

[US]High Times Jan. 33: A couple from Flushing, Queens, New York, was busted on a Miami street corner in possession of nine pounds of toot.
[US]C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 81: His voice left the listener intensely high as though he had sniffed a gram of toot.
[UK]K. Lette Llama Parlour 189: Just lemme score some toot an’ I’ll siddown an’ tell you everythin’.
[US]Mad mag. July 13: I want the toot and nothing but the toot.
[UK]J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 893: [S]acks of toot and carlos, bulgy luggage with millions in banknotes.

5. a measure of a narcotic, usu. cocaine, enough for a single inhalation; thus an inhalation.

[US]D. Goines Street Players 16: You don’t want your big chief Earl to know that you like a toot now and then.
[US]J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 264: Billie from Topeka got hold of herself, and took another little toot of cocaine.
[Aus]R.G. Barrett You Wouldn’t Be Dead for Quids (1989) 221: ‘It’s called having a toot, Les’, he said, bending his head over the mirror .
[UK]K. Lette Llama Parlour 101: Pierce [...] hoovered up a white line and passed it [i.e. a straw] to me. ‘Wanna toot?’.
[US]E. Bunker Mr Blue 281: [of heroin] It is phenomenal how fast a little toot of smack will take away the agony of withdrawal.
[UK]N. Griffiths Grits 3: [of heroin] Gettin a toot then, am I?
[Aus]R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 271: Apart from smoking pot and maybe having a toot now and again Edwin wasn’t a dealer.
[UK]B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 26: If you got in [...] you were guaranteed a toot and a shag.
[UK]K. Sampson Killing Pool 29: Your next toot’s on the house.
[US]T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] I try to stay calm but it’s hard, even with a couple toots off the foil in me.

6. (N.Z. prison) a non-specific drug.

[NZ]D. Looser ‘Boob Jargon’ in NZEJ 13 36: toot n.Marijuana.
[NZ]D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 191/1: toot n. any of various drugs, e.g. marijuana, pills, speed, and snuff.

7. (UK drugs) a puff of a cannabis cigarette.

[UK]R. Milward Ten Storey Love Song 26: The ashtrays getting passed around with reefers on top of them. She takes a toot or two.

In compounds

toot man (n.)

a cocaine dealer.

[US](con. 1960s) G. Washington Blood Brothers 30: He was like your friendly neighbourhood toot man.

In phrases

toot up (v.)

(US) to go on a drunken spree.

[US]J. Kofoed ‘Another Little Drink’ All-America Sports Mag. Feb. 🌐 I heard you’d been tootin’ up after winning yesterday’s game.