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toco

UK/ˈtəʊ.kəʊ/US/ˈtoʊ.koʊ/

toco is the clipping of tocodynamometer.

Meaning of tocodynamometer

Noun

tocodynamometer (plural tocodynamometers)

  1. A pressure-sensitive contraction transducer used in cardiotocography.
    Synonyms:
    toco

Noun (1)

toco (uncountable)

  1. (British, obsolete, slang) Corporal punishment; chastisement; beatings.
    • The School leaders come up furious, and administer toco to the wretched fags nearest at hand; they may well be angry, for it is all Lombard-street to a china orange that the School-house kick a goal with the ball touched in such a good place.1857, Thomas Hughes, “Rugby and Football”, in Tom Brown's School Days, London: Macmilla and Co., published 1928, page 95
    • Yum-Yum: But as I'm engaged to Ko-Ko, / To embrace you thus, con fuoco, / Would distinctly be no gioco, / And for yam I should get toco—
    • Both: Toco, toco, toco, toco.1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, The Mikado, London: G. Bell and Sons, published 1911, act 1, page 17

Noun (2)

toco (plural tocos)

  1. Synonym of toco toucan
    • The Toco Toucan is surely among the most striking of the toucans, with its black-and-white body and enormous yellow-orange bill. [...] Tocos make loud rattling or clacking sounds with their bills.2007, Les Beletsky, Bird Songs from Around the World, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 90
    • Diabetes mellitus has been reported in tocos (R. toco) and keel-billed toucans.2014, R. Eric Miller, Murray E. Fowler, Fowler's Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine, Volume 8 - E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 234
    Synonyms:
    toco toucan

Noun (3)

toco (plural tocos)

  1. Crateva tapia, a fruit tree of South and Central America.

Synonyms of toco

Forms of toco

pluraltocos
alternative formtoko

Origin of toco

Shortening.

From Hindi ठोको (ṭhoko), second-person plural imperative form of ठोकना (ṭhoknā, “to strike, hit, beat”), from Sauraseni Prakrit *𑀞𑁄𑀓𑁆𑀓𑀤𑀺 (*ṭhokkadi), from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀞𑁄𑀓𑀢𑀺 (*ṭhokati).

From taxonomic name Ramphastos toco.

Words formed from toco

Phrases with toco

Words that rhyme with toco

Questions about toco

What does toco mean?
Toco means corporal punishment; chastisement; beatings.
What is toco the clipping of?
Toco is the clipping of tocodynamometer.
What part of speech is toco?
Toco is a noun.
How do you pronounce toco?
Toco is pronounced /ˈtəʊ.kəʊ/ (UK).
What is the plural of toco?
The plural of toco is tocos.

Words near toco in the dictionary

  1. tockwough
  2. tockwoughs
  3. tocleave
  4. tocleaving
  5. toclopidine
  6. toco
  7. toco for yam
  8. toco toucan
  9. toco toucans
  10. toco-
  11. Tocobaga

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Adapted from Wiktionary: toco (page history and authors); tocodynamometer (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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