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toke en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
/təʊk/ (UK) (Australia) audio tōk (US) (US) audio /toʊk/ (US) tōk (UK)
Etymology Clipping of token.
Meanings
(US, qualifier:casinos, slang) A gratuity.
I gave the maitre d’ a $10 toke and he just laughed.
Forms
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toke en · VERB · etymology 1
Pronunciation
/təʊk/ (UK) (Australia) audio tōk (US) (US) audio /toʊk/ (US) tōk (UK)
Etymology Clipping of token.
Meanings
(qualifier:US casino slang, transitive) To give a gratuity to.
You have to toke the maitre d’ at least $50 if you want a really good table.
Forms
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toke en · NOUN · etymology 2
Pronunciation
/təʊk/ (UK) (Australia) audio tōk (US) (US) audio /toʊk/ (US) tōk (UK)
Etymology Presumably borrowed from Spanish toque (literally “touch”). Noun sense 1968, verb 1952.
Meanings
(slang) A puff of marijuana.
The artist took a thoughtful toke off the joint, then passed it along.
(broadly, slang) An inhalation or lungful of anything.
Back on the wards a big toke of O₂ might have done the job; it was God's own pick-me-up. 2011, Tim Winton, Dirt Music:
Forms
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toke en · VERB · etymology 2
Pronunciation
/təʊk/ (UK) (Australia) audio tōk (US) (US) audio /toʊk/ (US) tōk (UK)
Etymology Presumably borrowed from Spanish toque (literally “touch”). Noun sense 1968, verb 1952.
Meanings
(slang) To smoke marijuana.
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. 2009 August 23, Walter Kirn, “Drugs to Do, Cases to Solve”, in New York Times: Let's roll up a doobie and toke.
(slang) To inhale a puff of marijuana
Forms
Deriveds
toke up · toker · toke tube
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toke en · NOUN · etymology 3
Pronunciation
/təʊk/ (UK) (Australia) audio tōk (US) (US) audio /toʊk/ (US) tōk (UK)
Meanings
(obsolete, slang) A piece of bread.
Toke and cold ground rice pudding with plums it used to be—there is no better food at all. 1905, H. G. Wells, Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul:
Forms
Source: en.wiktionary, “toke” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.