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old toasts

old toasts is the plural of old toast.

Meaning of old toast

Noun

old toast (plural old toasts)

  1. (obsolete, slang) A lively fellow who drinks excessively; a carouser.
    • How often muſt I be put to the Bluſh too, when every old Toaſt ſhall be calling me Old Acquaintance, and telling me, Oh Sir, 'tis many a fair Day ſince you and I knew one Another firſt. I think 'twas in the four and thirtieth of the Queen, that we were School-fellows. How the World's alter'd ſince!...1667, Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, “The Seventh Vision of Hell Reform’d”, in R[oger] L[’Estrange], transl., The Visions of Dom Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, […], London: […] H[enry] Herringman...

Questions about old toasts

What is old toasts the plural of?
Old toasts is the plural of old toast.

Words near old toasts in the dictionary

  1. old timers
  2. old timers' disease
  3. old times
  4. old timey
  5. old toast
  6. old toasts
  7. Old Tom
  8. Old Toongabbie
  9. old top
  10. old town
  11. old towns

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