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tocos

tocos is the plural of toco.

Meaning of 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

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
    Synonyms:
    toco toucan

Noun (3)

toco (plural tocos)

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

Questions about tocos

What is tocos the plural of?
Tocos is the plural of toco.

Words near tocos in the dictionary

  1. Tocopilla
  2. tocoquinone
  3. tocoquinones
  4. tocororo
  5. tocororos
  6. tocos
  7. tocostome
  8. tocostomes
  9. tocotrienol
  10. tocotrienols
  11. TOCP

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