toasters

Noun

toaster (plural toasters)

1. An electrical device for toasting food, typically sliced bread.
   • “Imagine this,” says an advertising consultant named Barry Lowenthal. “I’m a smart toaster, and I’m collecting data on how many times the toaster is used.” […] There are, of course, smart speakers (which roughly a quarter of American homes have) and smart thermostats, as well as smart thermometers...2018 December 18, Joe Pinsker, “The Coming Commodification of Life at Home”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2019
2. A toasting fork.
3. (archaic) A fish ready for toasting.
   • [T]he tumult of the thousand different cries of the eager dealers, all shouting at the top of their voices, at one and the same time, is almost bewildering. […] "Come and look at 'em! here's toasters!" bellows one with a Yarmouth bloater stuck on a toasting-fork.1851, Henry Mayhew, “The London Street Markets on a Saturday Night”, in London Labour and the London Poor; […], volume I (The London Street-folk. Book the First.), London: [George Woodfall], →OCLC...
4. One who toasts (cooks lightly by browning).
5. One who toasts (engages in salute while drinking alcohol).
6. (US, slang) A firearm, especially a pistol.
   • The renegade, you been afraid I penetrate pop culture / Bring 'em a lot closer to the block where they pop toasters2001, “Renegade”, in The Blueprint, performed by Jay-Z ft. Eminem

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