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totes

totes is the plural of tote.

totes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tote.

Meaning of tote

Noun (1)

tote (plural totes)

  1. A tote bag.
  2. A heavy burden.
  3. (logistics) A kind of plastic box used for transporting goods.
    • They can be used for palleted bags, totes, or bales and can also be used to transport large logs.2012, Chittaranjan Kole, Chandrashekhar P. Joshi, David R. Shonnard, Handbook of Bioenergy Crop Plants, page 129
  4. The principal handle of a handplane, for gripping the plane.
    • Coordinate term: knob

Noun (2)

tote (plural totes)

  1. (Australia, UK) A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator.
    • He was a humorist of note and keen at repartee,
      He laid the odds and kept a "tote", whatever that may be,1892, Banjo Paterson, The Man from Ironbark
  2. (Australia, UK) Pari-mutuel betting.

See all 8 meanings of tote

Adverb

totes (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial) Totally.
    • That was totes like the best night ever!
    • “Apparently, I suck at being nonviolent.” “Dude, sucking at something is the first step towards being sort of good at something. You and I are like little baby Billys right now, and we're "sucking" on our first bottle of nonviolent milk.” “[sighs] Totes. I'll stop "pooping my diaper."” “Whoa...2010 September 20, Kent Osborne, Niki Yang, & Adam Muto, “Finn Meets His Hero” (7:03 from the start), in Adventure Time, season 1, episode 25, spoken by Finn the Human (Jeremy Shada)

Origin of totes

Clipping of totally + -s (hypocoristic suffix).

Words formed from totes

Phrases with totes

Questions about totes

What does totes mean?
Totes means totally.
What is totes the plural of?
Totes is the plural of tote.
What part of speech is totes?
Totes is an adverb.

Words near totes in the dictionary

  1. totemy
  2. Totenkopf
  3. Totenkopfs
  4. toter
  5. toters
  6. totes
  7. totes magotes
  8. totes malotes
  9. totes McGoats
  10. totes McGotes
  11. totes my goats

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: totes (page history and authors); tote (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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