Toco
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈtəʊ.kəʊ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Toco is a noun meaning Clipping of tocodynamometer.
Meaning
Clipping of tocodynamometer.
More Meanings
- Synonym of toco toucan
- (obsolete, British slang) Corporal punishment; chastisement; beatings.
Example Sentences
Diabetes mellitus has been reported in tocos (R. toco) and keel-billed toucans.
Yum-Yum: But as I'm engaged to Ko-Ko, / To embrace you thus, con fuoco, / Would distinctly be no gioco, / And for yam I should get toco— Both: Toco, toco, toco, toco.
The Toco Toucan is surely among the most striking of the toucans, with its black-and-white body and enormous yellow-orange bill. [...] Tocos make loud rattling or clacking sounds with their bills.
The School leaders come up furious, and administer toco to the wretched fags nearest at hand; they may well be angry, for it is all Lombard-street to a china orange that the School-house kick a goal with the ball touched in such a good place.
Word Forms
- tocos
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cane, whopping, clobbering, whacking, butt-kicking, caning.
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