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tol

tol adjective: tall.

Adjective

tol

  1. (Internet) Tall.

Noun

tol (plural tols)

  1. (obsolete, costermongers) Lot.
    • Business topics are discussed in a most peculiar style. One man takes the pipe from his mouth and says, "Bill made a doogheno hit this morning." "Jem," says another, to a man just entering, "you'll stand a top o' reeb?" "On," answers Jem, "I've had a trosseno tol, and have been doing dab."1851, Henry Mayhew, “Habits and Amusements of Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 11
    • "Give me two gen, then, and take the whole bloody tol. I've walked me teef orf afore rouf this mornin', and wot 'ave I got? Two bloody yenneps! I ask yer."1978, Rose Ayers, The Street Sparrows

tol meaning in Tamil

tol in Tamil

சாவு

Forms of tol

pluraltols

Origin of tol

Eye dialect of tall.

Back slang for lot.

Phrases with tol

Questions about tol

What does tol mean?
Tol means tall.
What is tol in Tamil?
Tol in Tamil is சாவு. See Tol meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is tol?
Tol can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near tol in the dictionary

  1. Tokuyama
  2. Tokyo
  3. Tokyoesque
  4. tokyoite
  5. tokyoites
  6. tol
  7. Tol Tol
  8. tol'
  9. tol'able
  10. Tol'yatti
  11. tol-lol

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tol (page history and authors); tol (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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