See also: Toke, töke, tokë, and tőke

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Clipping of token.

Noun

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toke (plural tokes)

  1. (US, slang, casinos) A gratuity.
    I gave the maitre d’ a $10 toke and he just laughed.

Verb

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toke (third-person singular simple present tokes, present participle toking, simple past and past participle toked)

  1. (transitive, US casino slang) To give a gratuity to.
    You have to toke the maitre d’ at least $50 if you want a really good table.

Etymology 2

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Presumably from Spanish tocar (touch). Noun sense 1968, verb 1952.[1]

Noun

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toke (plural tokes)

  1. (slang) A puff of marijuana.
    The artist took a thoughtful toke off the joint, then passed it along.
  2. (slang, by extension) An inhalation or lungful of anything.
    • 2011, Tim Winton, Dirt Music:
      Back on the wards a big toke of O2 might have done the job; it was God's own pick-me-up.

Verb

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toke (third-person singular simple present tokes, present participle toking, simple past and past participle toked)

  1. (slang) To smoke marijuana.
    Let's roll up a doobie and toke.
    • 2009 August 23, Walter Kirn, “Drugs to Do, Cases to Solve”, in New York Times[1]:
      This keeps Doc’s workload relatively light, freeing him to stay stoned around the clock and live in the now, which isn’t hard for him, because he’s toked away his short-term memory.
  2. (slang) To inhale a puff of marijuana
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Etymology 3

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Noun

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toke (plural tokes)

  1. (slang, obsolete) A piece of bread.
    • 1905, H. G. Wells, Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul:
      Toke and cold ground rice pudding with plums it used to be—there is no better food at all.

References

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  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “toke”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

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Japanese

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Romanization

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toke

  1. Rōmaji transcription of とけ

Lindu

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Noun

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toke

  1. chameleon

Maori

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Polynesian *toke (compare with hōtoke, Hawaiian koʻekoʻe, Tahitian toʻetoʻe).[1]

Noun

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toke

  1. (obsolete) cold
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References

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  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “toke.2”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

Etymology 2

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Noun

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toke

  1. worm
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Further reading

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  • toke” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Middle English

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Verb

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toke

  1. first/third-person singular past indicative of taken; took