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toast rack

toast rack noun: a rack designed to hold toasted bread, with a partition for each slice.

toast rack: a rack designed to hold toasted bread, with a partition for each slice
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Noun

toast rack (plural toast racks)

  1. A rack designed to hold toasted bread, with a partition for each slice.
  2. A type of bicycle stand consisting of several inverted "U"-shaped metal bars connected at ground level by two parallel rails.
  3. (informal, usually) Any of several types of railway or tramway passenger vehicles with open sides and transverse benches that span the width of the vehicle body, such that it resembles a toast rack.
    • There are an Atlantic locomotive of free-lance design and six toast-rack coaches.1949 July and August, “Notes and News: Poole Miniature Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 272
  4. (UK, slang) The ZX Spectrum 128k+ home computer, having a large heat sink built into the keyboard, shaped like a toast rack.
    • Visually very similar to the Spectrum+ […] this 128K RAM computer was distinguishable from its immediate predecessor by a black metal heat sink down the right hand side (now often affectionately referred to as the 'toast rack') which dissipated the extra heat generated by all the new memory chips.2012, Colin Woodcock, The ZX Spectrum on Your PC, page 4
    • The ZX Spectrum 128 resembled the Sinclair Spectrum + except for red lettering and a large heat sink on the right-hand side. The heat exchanger was needed because the new chips and architecture produced more heat than the case could cope with dissipating and led to the system's nickname of 'The...2022, Andrew Morten, Amstrads and Ataris: UK Home Computers in the 1980s

Proper noun capitalized: Toast Rack

the Toast Rack

  1. (informal) The Hollings Building, a modernist building in Fallowfield, Manchester, England, originally a college.

Forms of toast rack

pluraltoast racks
alternative formtoastrack

Origin of toast rack

From its appearance.

Questions about toast rack

What does toast rack mean?
Toast rack means a rack designed to hold toasted bread, with a partition for each slice.
What part of speech is toast rack?
Toast rack can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of toast rack?
The plural of toast rack is toast racks.

Words near toast rack in the dictionary

  1. toast notification
  2. toast notifications
  3. toast of the town
  4. toast point
  5. toast points
  6. toast rack
  7. toast racks
  8. toast sandwich
  9. toast sandwiches
  10. toast up
  11. toast water

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