There was nothing she could do to hide
her toddy blossom.to die formod. important or desirable
enough to die for; worth dying for.
This chocolate cake is to die for! We had
a beautiful room at the hotel and the ser-
vice was to die for.
to-don. a commotion. Don’t make such
a to-do when you come in late. They
made quite a to-do about the broken
window.
toe jamn. a nasty, smelly substance that
collects between the toes of unwashed
feet. Wash your feet, you turkey! I don’t
want you getting all your toe jam all over
the room!
toe tagtv. to kill someone. (Bodies in the
morgue are identified by tags on their big
toes.) Man, you treat me that way one
more time and I’m gonna toe tag you!
togethermod. organized. I’m not to-
gether yet. Lemme call you back. That
chick’s really got it together.
to gomod. packaged to be taken out; pack-
aged to be carried home to eat. Do you
want it to go, or will you eat it here? This
stuff is to go.
to hell and gonemod. gone; ruined. (Use
caution with hell.) Fred was to hell and
gone before anybody figured out what he
had done. The whole plan is to hell and
gone. Nothing can be salvaged.
To hell with that!exclam. That’s the end
of that!; No more of that! (Use caution
with hell.) To hell with that! That’s no
excuse! I’ve heard stories like that be-
fore, and I don’t believe any of them. To
hell with that.
toilet mouthGo to potty mouth.
toilet watern. beer; draft beer. (Alludes to
the term for cologne.) This toilet wa-
ter has me running back and forth to the
john. You want another pitcher of toi-
let water?
toke[tok] 1. n. a puff of marijuana smoke.
(Drugs.) After a big toke, he settled back
to drift. Harry took a big toke and
sighed. 2. tv. & in. to puff a marijuana
cigarette. (Drugs.) He sat on a stone to
toke one before bean time. He tokes for
a good bit of every day. 3. n. a cigarette.
You got a toke I can bum? I left my
tokes in my jacket. 4. in. to free base.
(Drugs.) She almost blew herself up
toking. They were toking when her
mother called on the phone. 5. n. a token.
Yeah. Just a little toke of my approval.
Nothing much. Just a toke.
tokus and tukkis; tuchus[“tok@s and
“tUk@s] n. the buttocks; the rump. (Yid-
dish.) She fell right on her tokus!
Look at the tukkis on that fat guy.
tomaton. an attractive girl or woman.
There’s a nice-looking tomato. A good-
looking tomato brought me my change.
tomcat 1. n. a sexually active male; a stud.
Old Fred’s getting to be quite a tomcat.
His goal in life is to die a tomcat at age
ninety. 2. in. [for a man] to prowl around
searching for sex. Harry was out tom-
catting again last night. He’s gonna
tomcat around till he catches something.
tomfoolery[“tam”ful#i] n. foolishness.
That’s enough of this tomfoolery! The
entire evening was devoted to tomfoolery.
tongue loosenerGo to tongue oil.
tongue oil and tongue loosener n.
liquor. She had a little too much tongue
oil and was telling all about everybody.
Barlowe poured the pigeon another shot of
tongue loosener.
tongue-tied 1. mod. unable to speak from
fear or confusion. (Standard English.)
I was tongue-tied and useless. Why do
you get tongue-tied in front of a crowd? 2.
mod. alcohol intoxicated. He was
tongue-tied and couldn’t stand up. She’s
not just tipsy; she’s tongue-tied.
tonicn. liquor. How about some more
tonic? Just a bit of tonic. I’m cutting
down.
tonsil bathn. liquor; a drink of liquor.
I could use a little tonsil bath about now.
You want some more of that tonsil bath?
tonsil hockey 1. n. oral sex performed on
the penis; fellatio. (Usually objection-
able.) Give him a good round of tonsilto die for