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 or whistle.
  • noun by extension, informal A fart; a flatus.
  • noun uncountable, slang Cocaine.
  • noun informal A spree of drunkness.
  • verb To stand out, or be prominent.
  • verb To peep; to look narrowly.
  • verb To see; to spy.
  • verb To flatulate.
  • verb of a horn or whistle To make the sound of a horn or whistle.
  • 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

[Ultimately of imitative origin.]

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • That word toot reminds me of a little ditty we used to sing as children:

    Qwaider Planet 2010

  • That word toot reminds me of a little ditty we used to sing as children:

    Qwaider Planet 2010

  • That word toot reminds me of a little ditty we used to sing as children:

    Qwaider Planet 2010

  • Dear Heloise: Most new cars have the electronic door locks that "toot" the horn if the car is relocked.

    Hints From Heloise 2010

  • 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

  • I've freshened it up a tad or a "toot" with the French equivalent of "toodeloo!" ...

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • 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.

    How to Join Mastodon, an Ad-Free Social Network Billionaires Can't Buy The A.V. Club 2022

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  • Denny was making soup greens. He walked along the bins, taking a wrinkled carrot, an outside stalk leaf of celery, pinched with wilt at the top, a tomato with a soft spot and a sprig of parsley. He put these in a twist of paper called a toot. When he had enough toots filled, he wrote a sign on a paper bag: Sale on Soup Greens. Only 5¢.
    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