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▪ I. toke, n.1 slang.|təʊk|
[Origin uncertain.]
(A piece of) bread; also fig. (see quot. 1967).
1843Dickens Let. 7 June (1974) III. 503 Now, we don't want none of your sarse—and if you bung any of them tokes of yours in this direction, you'll find your shuttlecock sent back as heavy as it came. 1874M. Clarke His Natural Life i. vii. 53 Sarah was standing on the poop throwing bits o' toke to the gulls... She..throwed crumbs and such like up in the air over the side. 1905[see ground ppl. a. 1 a]. 1963M. Kendon Ladies College, Goudhurst 8 Dripping..spread on ‘tokes’, was eaten for eleven o'clock lunch by schoolgirls for well nigh forty years. 1967K. Giles Death in Diamonds v. 90 ‘If you fall foul of Tiny Holdsworth he gives you toke.’.. ‘In the local dialect..toke used to be poor quality bread, hence toke and water equals punishment.’
▪ II. toke, n.2 U.S. slang.|təʊk|
[Origin uncertain: cf. toke v.]
An inhalation of smoke from a cigarette or pipe containing marijuana or other narcotic substance.
1968Harper's Mag. Mar. 48 If he still took a toke of marijuana from time to time..still! Mailer was not in approval of any drug. 1973R. L. Simon Big Fix xii. 87, I packed my pipe with..hashish... I took a good heavy toke and held it in as long as I could. 1976New Yorker 17 May 34/3 The host shall light up and take the first toke. He will then offer the joint to the first woman on his left. 1980London Mag. Aug.–Sept. 106/1 He takes huge tokes from a home-made hookah.
▪ III. toke, n.3 N. Amer. slang.|təʊk|
[Origin uncertain: perh. an abbrev. of token n.]
A gratuity or tip.
1971Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 22 June 18/4 The prime advantage [of being a waitress] is instant money—tips or ‘tokes’ as they are known in the profession. 1981Miami Herald 26 Mar. 30a/2 They have just gone in and hassled people on tips and tokes.
▪ IV. toke, v. U.S. slang.|təʊk|
[Origin uncertain: cf. toke n.2]
intr. and trans. To smoke (a marijuana cigarette). Also const. up. Hence ˈtoker.
1952Amer. Speech XXVII. 30 Toke v., to smoke a cigarette; to take a puff of a cigarette. 1973Newsweek 1 Jan. 4 Bill Buckley says he went ‘outside the 3-mile limit—I'm a law-and-order advocate, you know’—to toke up, but neglects to mention where he got the stuff. 1975High Times Dec. 6/2 Thousands of tokers. Ibid. 13/2 This hash oil joint is one of the most satisfying ways of toking oil. 1979N. Mailer Executioner's Song (1980) i. xxi. 339 He had been over at a friend of his selling drugs, a little crystal, some speed, toked a couple, got blasted.
▪ V. toke
obs. pa. tense of take v.; see toque, tuck. |