toot n.1
1. (also tout) a drinking match.
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).
Poems 36: Gloss. Tout, a drinking-bout. | ||
Dead Bird (Sydney) 13 Dec. 1/2: An irreverent wag wrote below a picture of Gabriel blowing the last horn, ‘Off on a toot’. | ||
Trip to Chinatown Act III: Drunk as a boiled owl! I knew everybody else was on a toot, so I filled up! | ||
Sandburrs 63: A good toot will be d’ t’ing to allay me natural uneasiness. | ‘Hamilton Finnerty’s Heart’||
Forty Modern Fables 93: So they went on a Toot of the High-Lonesome Variety. | ||
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. | ||
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. | ||
Taking the Count 124: One of de regular waiters is out on a toot. | ‘On Account of a Lady’||
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. | ||
Thieves Like Us (1999) 26: He won’t never go on a real toot around here. | ||
Uncle Fred in the Springtime 28: ‘[H]e was planning to go on a toot the moment my back was turned’. | ||
7 Sept. [synd. col.] Some of the datelines could read not ‘En route with Dewey’ but ‘On a toot with Dewey’. | ||
One Lonely Night 65: She smelt a toot coming up. | ||
Bop Fables 66: Jack, who was no astute galoot, went on a toot with a local beaut. | ||
Exit 3 and Other Stories 77: I mean when you’re off on a toot and ain’t careful. | ||
(con. 1940s) Admiral (1968) 260: You two guys sure had yourselves a toot. | ||
Garden of Sand (1981) 434: That’s a bunch of rumdumbs on a toot. | ||
(con. 1940s) 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. | ||
Brown’s Requiem 185: Next time you go on a toot come on up. | ||
(con. early 1950s) L.A. Confidential 185: Stensland on toot at Raincheck Room, 3871 W. Gage. | ||
Destination: Morgue! (2004) 310: ‘Where’s Wino Weinberger? We’re old friends.’ [...] ‘Try Skid Row. I heard Wino’s on a toot down there.’. | ‘Hot-Prowl Rape-O’||
‘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.
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. | ||
Gentle Grafter (1915) 7: Bird City hoppd out of its nest, waggd its pin feathers and strolled out for its matutinal toot. | ‘The Octopus Marooned’||
Pedlocks (1971) 58: Joseph had bought the broncs for forty dollars and a jug of squirrel whisky (‘two toots – stranger – and you climb trees’). | ||
CUSS 212: Toot A beer. | et al.
4. cocaine.
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. | ||
Life and Times of Little Richard 81: His voice left the listener intensely high as though he had sniffed a gram of toot. | ||
Llama Parlour 189: Just lemme score some toot an’ I’ll siddown an’ tell you everythin’. | ||
Mad mag. July 13: I want the toot and nothing but the toot. | ||
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.
Street Players 16: You don’t want your big chief Earl to know that you like a toot now and then. | ||
Glitter Dome (1982) 264: Billie from Topeka got hold of herself, and took another little toot of cocaine. | ||
You Wouldn’t Be Dead for Quids (1989) 221: ‘It’s called having a toot, Les’, he said, bending his head over the mirror . | ||
Llama Parlour 101: Pierce [...] hoovered up a white line and passed it [i.e. a straw] to me. ‘Wanna toot?’. | ||
Mr Blue 281: [of heroin] It is phenomenal how fast a little toot of smack will take away the agony of withdrawal. | ||
Grits 3: [of heroin] Gettin a toot then, am I? | ||
Mystery Bay Blues 271: Apart from smoking pot and maybe having a toot now and again Edwin wasn’t a dealer. | ||
Urban Grimshaw 26: If you got in [...] you were guaranteed a toot and a shag. | ||
Killing Pool 29: Your next toot’s on the house. | ||
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.
NZEJ 13 36: toot n.Marijuana. | ‘Boob Jargon’ in||
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.
Ten Storey Love Song 26: The ashtrays getting passed around with reefers on top of them. She takes a toot or two. |
In compounds
a cocaine dealer.
(con. 1960s) Blood Brothers 30: He was like your friendly neighbourhood toot man. |
In phrases
(US) to go on a drunken spree.
All-America Sports Mag. Feb. 🌐 I heard you’d been tootin’ up after winning yesterday’s game. | ‘Another Little Drink’