toke

See also: Toke, töke, tokë, and tőke

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: tōk, IPA(key): /təʊk/
  • Rhymes: -əʊk
  • (US) enPR: tōk, IPA(key): /toʊk/
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  • Rhymes: -əʊk

Etymology 1

Clipping of token.

Noun

toke (plural tokes)

  1. (US, slang, casinos) A gratuity.
    I gave the maitre d’ a $10 toke and he just laughed.

Verb

toke (third-person singular simple present tokes, present participle toking, simple past and past participle toked)

  1. (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

Presumably from Spanish tocar (touch). Noun sense 1968, verb 1952.[1]

Noun

toke (plural tokes)

  1. (slang) A puff of marijuana.
    The artist took a thoughtful toke off the joint, then passed it along.
  2. (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

toke (third-person singular simple present tokes, present participle toking, simple past and past participle toked)

  1. (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:
      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.
  2. (slang) To inhale a puff of marijuana
Derived terms

Noun

toke (plural tokes)

  1. (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

  1. Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “toke”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

toke

  1. Rōmaji transcription of とけ

Lindu

Noun

toke

  1. chameleon

Maori

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *toke (compare with hōtoke, Hawaiian koʻekoʻe, Tahitian toʻetoʻe).[1]

Noun

toke

  1. (obsolete) cold
  • hōtoke

References

  1. Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “toke.2”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

Noun

toke

  1. worm
Synonyms

Further reading

  • 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

Verb

toke

  1. 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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