toot

Noun (1)

toot (countable and uncountable, plural toots)

1. (countable) The noise of a horn or whistle.
   • He gave a little toot of the horn, to get their attention.
2. (broadly, countable, informal) A fart; flatus.
3. (slang, uncountable) Cocaine.

   Synonyms:

   benzoylmethylecgonine, blow, Bolivian marching powder, booger sugar, boots, California corn flakes, charlie, ching, coke, corinne

4. (countable, slang) A portion of cocaine that a person snorts.
   • So he took a toot. A couple of days later he did another, then another. Soon Harry was using more coke than he had done in his whole life.1981, New York Magazine, volume 14, number 35, page 30
5. (informal) A spree of drunkenness.
   • Most of the people we observed [in the casino] were elderly, retired folk; many of them, we conjectured, were widows on a toot the like of which they'd never experienced in their whole lives.1980 February 16, Nancy Walker, “You Can Go Home Again”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 29, page 12
6. (informal, uncountable) Rubbish; tat.
   • I'm not paying fifty pounds for this load of old toot!

   Synonyms:

   cultch, crap, debris, dreck, drek, garbage, gash, junk, litter, pelf

7. (countable, social media) A message on the social networking software Mastodon.
   • As for layout, Mastodon feels a little like TweetDeck, with columns for your toots, toots from the people you follow, your mentions, and (unlike Twitter) a timeline of all public posts being shared by every user on the platform.2017 April 4, Madison Malone Kircher, “What the Heck Is Mastodon, and Why Is Everyone Talking About It?”, in New York Magazine
   • Interestingly, Mastodon offers a bit more in that aspect for toots can be 500 characters long.2017 April 5, “Mastodon is here; will you stop tweeting and start tooting?”, in The Indian Express

Verb

toot (third-person singular simple present toots, present participle tooting, simple past and past participle tooted)

1. To stand out, or be prominent.
   • Now rise up, Master Huddypeke, Your tail toteth out behind.1519, John Rastell, Four Elements
2. To peep; to look narrowly.
   • In the court, in the noblemen's houses, at every merchant's house, those Observants were spying, tooting, and looking, watching and prying, what they might hear or see against the see of Rome.1550 November 9, Hugh Latimer, A Sermon preached at Stamford
   • Long wandering up and downe the land, With bowe and bolts in either hand, For birds in bushes tooting.1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender
3. To see; to spy.
4. To produce the noise of a horn or whistle.
   • The island rang, as yet, with the tooting horns and rattling teams of mail-coaches.1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes
   • A horn tooted to the right, and I saw the black people run.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 205

   Synonyms:

   poop

5. To cause a horn or whistle to produce a noise.
   • "In the morning, we get deer on the line. We tend not to 'toot' them because it seems that only makes them more likely to run across the track."2025 August 20, Paul Clifton, “A driver's eye view of East West Rail”, in RAIL, number 1042, page 33
6. (slang) To flatulate.

   Synonyms:

   badger, blow off, break ass, break wind, bust ass, crepitate, curmur, cut one, cut one loose, cut the cheese

7. (intransitive) Of a queen bee, to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
8. (slang) To go on a drinking binge.
9. (slang) To snort (a recreational drug).
   • I had graduated from the simple tooting cocaine up my nose to smoking it, which was a completely different experience and animal.2008, Robert L. Glover, Street Corner Symphony: An American Story, page 65
10. (social media) To post a message on a Mastodon instance.
    • Only want to toot in the Animal Rights instance? You can create an account there and do that.2017 April 5, Jack Morse, “Bye, Twitter. All the cool kids are migrating to Mastodon”, in Mashable Australia
    • One alternative to Fist is Mastodon, which looks and behaves a bit like Twitter (you don’t tweet, you “toot”).2018 February 8, Marie Boran, “Why tweet when you can toot on Mastodon”, in The Irish Times

Noun (2)

IPA/ˈtʊt/

toot (plural toots)

1. (Australia, slang) A toilet.

   Synonyms:

   bathroom, latrine, necessarium, toilet, toilet room, urinal, water closet, WC, cloaca, closet

Noun (3)

toot (plural toots)

1. (Scotland) A small child; alternative form of tot