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toot

(to͞ot)

v. toot·ed, toot·ing, toots

v.intr.

1. To sound a horn or whistle in short blasts.

2. To make the sound of a horn or whistle blown in short blasts or a sound resembling it.

3. Slang To snort cocaine.

v.tr.

1. To blow or sound (a horn or whistle).

2. To sound (a blast, for example) on a horn or whistle.

3. Slang To snort (cocaine).

1. A blast, as of a horn.

2. Slang A drinking binge.

3. Slang Cocaine, especially a small amount snorted at one time.

[Ultimately of imitative origin.]

toot′er n.

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toot

(tuːt)

to give or cause to give (a short blast, hoot, or whistle): to toot a horn; to toot a blast; the train tooted.

1. the sound made by or as if by a horn, whistle, etc

2. (Recreational Drugs) slang any drug for snorting, esp cocaine

3. slang US and Canadian a drinking spree

4. slang Austral a lavatory

[C16: from Middle Low German tuten, of imitative origin]

ˈtooter n

toot

(tuːt)

(Plants) NZ an informal name for tutu ²

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toot¹

(tut)

v.i.

1. (of a horn or whistle) to give forth its characteristic sound.

2. to make a sound resembling that of a horn or whistle.

3. to sound or blow a horn, whistle, or wind instrument.

v.t.

4. to cause (a horn, whistle, or wind instrument) to sound.

5. to sound (notes, music, etc.) on a horn or the like.

6. an act or sound of tooting.

[1500–10; akin to Middle Low German tuten, Swedish tuta in same sense; orig. imitative]

toot′er, n.

toot²

(tut)
Slang. n.

1. a binge, esp. a period of drunken revelry.

2. an inhaled dose of cocaine.

v.t.

3. to inhale (cocaine).

[1780–90; compare earlier argot touting heavy drinking, Scots tout, toot draft, swig]

toot

Past participle: tooted
Gerund: tooting

Imperative
toot
toot

Present
I toot
you toot
he/she/it toots
we toot
you toot
they toot

Preterite
I tooted
you tooted
he/she/it tooted
we tooted
you tooted
they tooted

Present Continuous
I am tooting
you are tooting
he/she/it is tooting
we are tooting
you are tooting
they are tooting

Present Perfect
I have tooted
you have tooted
he/she/it has tooted
we have tooted
you have tooted
they have tooted

Past Continuous
I was tooting
you were tooting
he/she/it was tooting
we were tooting
you were tooting
they were tooting

Past Perfect
I had tooted
you had tooted
he/she/it had tooted
we had tooted
you had tooted
they had tooted

Future
I will toot
you will toot
he/she/it will toot
we will toot
you will toot
they will toot

Future Perfect
I will have tooted
you will have tooted
he/she/it will have tooted
we will have tooted
you will have tooted
they will have tooted

Future Continuous
I will be tooting
you will be tooting
he/she/it will be tooting
we will be tooting
you will be tooting
they will be tooting

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been tooting
you have been tooting
he/she/it has been tooting
we have been tooting
you have been tooting
they have been tooting

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been tooting
you will have been tooting
he/she/it will have been tooting
we will have been tooting
you will have been tooting
they will have been tooting

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been tooting
you had been tooting
he/she/it had been tooting
we had been tooting
you had been tooting
they had been tooting

Conditional
I would toot
you would toot
he/she/it would toot
we would toot
you would toot
they would toot

Past Conditional
I would have tooted
you would have tooted
he/she/it would have tooted
we would have tooted
you would have tooted
they would have tooted

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Noun 1. [画像:toot - a blast of a horn]toot - a blast of a horn

sound - the sudden occurrence of an audible event; "the sound awakened them"

2. [画像:toot - revelry in drinking]toot - revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party

booze-up, carousal, carouse, bender

revel, revelry - unrestrained merrymaking

Verb 1. [画像:toot - make a loud noise]toot - make a loud noise; "The horns of the taxis blared"

beep, claxon, honk, blare

sound, go - make a certain noise or sound; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'"

tootle - play (a musical instrument) casually; "the saxophone player was tootling a sad melody"

Translations

صَوْت البوقيَنْفُخُ في البوق

zatroubenízatroubit

dytdytte

Hupen

note

flaut, pípflauta, pípa, òeyta lúîur

suonare suono

garsastrimituoti

pūst tauritaures skaņastaurēšanataurēt

bert berte

boru/korna sesiçalmak öttürmek

嘟嘟声按或吹喇叭

toot

[tuːt]

A. N → toque m, bocinazo m
he went off with a toot on the horn → partió con un breve toque de bocina

B. VT [+ horn] → tocar, hacer sonar

C. VI [person] → tocar la bocina, dar un bocinazo

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

toot

[ˈtuːt]

n (on whistle) → coup m de sifflet ; (on car horn) → coup m de klaxon

vi (with car-horn) → klaxonner ; (with whistle) → siffler

vt
to toot one's horn → klaxonner
to toot one's whistle → siffler

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

toot

vt to toot a horn → auf dem Horn blasen or (child’s trumpet) → tuten ; (in car, on bicycle) → auf die Hupe drücken, hupen ; to toot a whistle → pfeifen, auf der Pfeife blasen

vi (in car, on bicycle) → hupen ; (train) → pfeifen ; (ship) → tuten

n (in car, on bicycle) → Hupen nt; (of train) → Pfiff m, → Pfeifsignal nt; give a quick toot (on car horn) → drück mal kurz auf die Hupe

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

toot

[tuːt]

1. n → colpo di clacson

2. vt to toot one's horn → suonare il clacson

3. vi → suonare ; (with car horn) → suonare il clacson

toot

(tuːt) noun

a quick blast of a trumpet, motor-horn etc. toet صَوْت البوق клаксон buzinada zatroubení das Hupen dyt κορνάρισμα bocinazo, pitido, trompetazo tuututus صدای بوق یا سوت törähdys note, coup צפירה भोंपू trubljenje dudálás bunyi terompet flaut, píp suono らっぱの音 나팔소리, 삑삑 울리기 (trimito) garsas, pyptelėjimas taures skaņas; taurēšana bunyi tut getoeter tut, bert trąbienie توتو، تى تيت ( دهارن ږغ apitadela sunet гудок zatrúbenie trobljenje trubljenje tutning, trumpet-, hornstöt การทําเสียงเป่าแตรหรือนกหวีด boru/korna sesi (小號、汽車喇叭的)嘟嘟聲 звук ріжка; гудок بگل، ٹرم، ناقوس کي آواز âm thanh ngắn (小号、汽车喇叭的)嘟嘟声

verb

to blow or sound a horn etc. He tooted (on) the horn. toet يَنْفُخُ في البوق изсвирвам buzinar zatroubit hupen dytte κορνάρω, σφυρίζω tocar tuututama زدن töräyttää donner une note, un coup de לִצפוֹר भोंपू बजाना trubiti dudál membunyikan terompet flauta, pípa, þeyta lúður suonare 鳴らす 나팔을 불다 pūsti, trimituoti pūst tauri; taurēt membunyikan toeteren tute, berte trąbić ټوټو كول ( لكه په شپېلۍ )، له ښكريا شپېلۍ ځمنه ږغ ايستل، شپېلۍ كول، تى تيت كول apitar a suna din давать гудок zatrúbiť (po)trobiti zatrubiti tuta, blåsa ส่งเสียงเป่าแตรหรือนกหวีด çalmak, öttürmek 按(或吹)喇叭 трубити в ріжок; давати гудок ناقوس بجانا thổi 按(或吹)喇叭

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Guster holds certain loose atoms of an idea (picked up at Tooting, where they were found floating among the orphans) that there is buried money underneath the cellar, guarded by an old man with a white beard, who cannot get out for seven thousand years because he said the Lord's Prayer backwards.

For this orphan charge of the Christian saint whose shrine was at Tooting has patted him on the shoulder, and it is the first time in his life that any decent hand has been so laid upon him.

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I had not seen anything like this before since I was a boy, and the stage used to flourish the village with the dust flying and the horn tooting.

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The unseen ferry-boat was blowing blast after blast, and the mouth- blown horn was tooting in terror-stricken fashion.

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If advice from one who is not older than yourself, but who, having lived most of his time in the wilderness, may be said to have experience beyond his years, will give no offense, you are welcome to my thoughts; and these are, to part with the little tooting instrument in your jacket to the first fool you meet with, and buy some we'pon with the money, if it be only the barrel of a horseman's pistol.

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The car ploughed into a Lycamobile shop in Tooting High Street at about 10.35pm on Friday.

Car ploughs into shop in Tooting High Street after driver suffers 'medical emergency'; The silver Mercedes ploughed off the road into a Hight Street store

Around 6pm on Saturday, the men were found with knife wounds on Upper Tooting Road, near Tooting Bec Underground, Scotland Yard said.

Two men knifed outside busy London tube station in broad daylight after fight breaks out; It comes just as Scotland Yard launched a murder inquiry on Saturday after a 20-year-old man died in north London

NEW Tooting MP Rosena Allin-Khan was to be Labour's 100th woman MP until Jo Cox's killing left her number 99.

NEW Tooting MP Rosena Allin-Khan [...]

Tooting the Night Tube Owl began appearing on signs at London Underground stations shortly before last September's scheduled extension of running hours, in an attempt to direct people to the new services.

Toy owls to celebrate late Tube line opening

The heavy metal sign fell on to a pavement in Tooting, south London, at around 7.30am yesterday, just yards from where hundreds of commuters were making their way to work.

Woman injured as billboard falls; UK BULLETINS

Torres-Gomez, formerly a television host, said "it is a fact that many Filipinos lack simple road courtesy, tooting the horns of their vehicles at the slightest sources of irritation, real or imagined."

Philippines lawmaker seeks to declare once a week aACAyno honk day'

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