toasting

Verb

toast (third-person singular simple present toasts, present participle toasting, simple past and past participle toasted)

1. (transitive) To cook lightly by browning by means of direct exposure to a fire or other heat source.
   • We used to enjoy toasting marshmallows around the campfire.
2. (intransitive, specifically) To cook lightly by browning under a grill or in a toaster; to grill.
   • Top with cheese and toast under the grill for a few minutes.
3. (ambitransitive) To engage in a salutation, often with raising of the drinking vessel, while drinking an alcoholic beverage in honor of someone or something.
   • We toasted the happy couple many times over the course of the evening.
4. (transitive) To warm thoroughly.
   • I toasted my feet by the fire.
5. (Jamaica, slang) To perform an extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
   • Toasting over a record does more than change the way that record is perceived by the audience: it creates a new piece of music with joint creative authorship, although the law does not support this characterization.2014, Richard James Burgess, The History of Music Production, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 168

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