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toby en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A drinking mug, in the shape of a human head with a hat atop; a Toby jug.
  2. (New-Zealand, UK) The valve that mediates the connection between a mains water-supply and a premises's own plumbing.
  3. (UK, dated, slang) The road or highway.
    • It is no wonder that itinerant agricultural workers travel on the toby and sleep in casual wards between jobs. 1931 October 17, Eric Blair, “Hop-picking”, in The New Statesman:
  4. (US, dated, regional) A kind of inferior cigar of a long slender shape, tapered at one end.
  5. The Moorish idol, Zanclus cornutus
  6. Any of several species of pufferfish in the genus Canthigaster

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Deriveds

toby box · toby rib · tobyman · high toby