Definition of TOOT

toot

Plural: toots

Noun

  • a blast of a horn
  • revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party
  • The noise of a horn or whistle.
  • A fart; flatus.
  • Cocaine.
  • A portion of cocaine that a person snorts.
  • A spree of drunkenness.
  • Rubbish; tat.
  • A message on the social networking software Mastodon.
  • A toilet.

Verb

Verb Forms: tooted, tooting, toots

  • To sound a horn or whistle in short blasts.
  • make a loud noise
  • To stand out, or be prominent.
  • To peep; to look narrowly.
  • To see; to spy.
  • To produce the noise of a horn or whistle.
  • To cause a horn or whistle to produce a noise.
  • To flatulate.
  • Of a queen bee, to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
  • To go on a drinking binge.
  • To snort (a recreational drug).
  • To post a message on a Mastodon instance.

Examples

  • He gave a little toot of the horn, to get their attention.
  • He let out a triumphant ’TOOT’ of victory after his opponent resigned from Words With Friends.
  • I'm not paying fifty pounds for this load of old toot!

Origin / Etymology

Probably onomatopoeic in origin. Compare Dutch toeteren (“to blow a horn”), German tuten, Swedish tuta, Danish tude.
Noun sense 7 ("Mastodon post") and verb sense 10 ("to post on Mastodon") are influenced by tweet (“Twitter post”).

Synonyms

beep, bender, blare, booze-up, carousal, carouse, claxon, honk, Bolivian marching powder, California corn flakes, House of Lords, WC, badger, bathroom, benzoylmethylecgonine, blow, blow off, bog, bogger, booger sugar, boots, brasco, break ass, break wind, can, carsey, charlie, ching, cloaca, closet, closet of decency, closet of ease, cludgie, coke, corinne, cottage, crap, crapper, crepitate, crystals, cultch, curmur, cut one loose, cut the cheese, debris, dike, dreck, drek, drop a bomb, dunny, facilities, fart, flake, flatulate, garbage, geography, girl, grunt, guff, hard white, house of office, jacks, jacques, jakes, john, johnny, junk, karzy, khazi, kocay, ladies and gentlemen, latrine, lats, lav, lavabo, lavatory, lavvy, let fluffy off the chain, let one go, let one rip, litter, loo, make a stinky, marching powder, necessarium, necessary, necessary place, necessary room, neddy, netty, nose candy, nose powder, office, office of ease, party powder, pass gas, pass wind, pelf, piece of crap, piece of garbage, piece of shit, piece of trash, pile of crap, pile of shit, place, poop, poop#Verb, poot, potty, powder, privy, pump, purging place, refuse, restroom, rip ass, rip one, rock, rocks, roughage, rubbish, service item, shield, shit, shitter, siege, six, slim, small room, smallest room, sniff, snow, snuff, step on a duck, step on a frog, stuff, teahouse, tearoom, throne room, thunderbox, toilet, toilet room, toot, trash, trump, urinal, urination station, usual offices, vault, wardrobe, wash, washroom, waste, water closet, white, white girl, white lady, withdraught, yay, yayo, yola

Scrabble Score: 4

toot: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
toot: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
toot: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 4

toot: valid Words With Friends Word