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NUMTOT

US/ˈnʌmtɑt/

NUMTOT noun: a young pro-public transit urbanist, particularly one with left-wing or progressive views.

Noun (1)

NUMTOT (plural NUMTOTs)

  1. (Internet) A young pro-public transit urbanist, particularly one with left-wing or progressive views.
    • The air is clean (because the buses are electric), and the living is easy. This is the future the Numtots want. […] “Yeah sex is cool, but have you ever fantasised about an infrastructure renewal program funded by the taxes of billionaires?” is a representative Numtot fantasy.2018 July 5, Elle Hunt, “Meet the Numtots: the millennials who find fixing public transport sexy”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2021
    • I became a NUMTOT (pressed “join” on a Facebook group) around the time I first watched The Michigan Transportation Musical at orientation. […] Both NUMTOT and the Michigan Transportation musical build an online cult around the otherwise lame topic of transit.2021 May 11, Annie Rauwerda, “Billy Magic and the internet’s unabashed enthusiasm for public transit”, in The Michigan Daily, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2022

Noun (2) capitalized: Numtot

Numtot (plural Numtots)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of NUMTOT.

Forms of NUMTOT

pluralNUMTOTs
alternative formNumtot
pluralNumtots

Origin of NUMTOT

Acronym of New Urbanist Memes for Transit-Oriented Teens, a Facebook group popular with young urbanists.

Questions about NUMTOT

What does NUMTOT mean?
NUMTOT means a young pro-public transit urbanist, particularly one with left-wing or progressive views.
What part of speech is NUMTOT?
NUMTOT is a noun.
How do you pronounce NUMTOT?
NUMTOT is pronounced /ˈnʌmtɑt/ (US).
What is the plural of NUMTOT?
The plural of NUMTOT is NUMTOTs.

Words near NUMTOT in the dictionary

  1. numskull
  2. numskulled
  3. numskulledness
  4. numskullery
  5. numskulls
  6. NUMTOT
  7. NUMTOTs
  8. Numu
  9. numud
  10. numuds
  11. Numulgi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: NUMTOT (page history and authors); Numtot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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