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In some senses, toco is marked as obsolete, slang, British. Watch for register when choosing this word.
toco
/ˈtəʊ.kəʊ/
noun 3
Collocations
5ADJ.
furious
VERB + TOCO
administer, get
TOCO + NOUN
toucan, toucans
PREP.
in
ADV.
surely
Definitions
noun
1
Clipping of tocodynamometer.
noun
1
Corporal punishment; chastisement; beatings.
The School leaders come up furious, and administer toco to the wretched fags nearest at hand; they may well be angry, for it is all Lombard-street to a china orange that the School-house kick a goal with the ball touched in such a good place.
Yum-Yum: But as I'm engaged to Ko-Ko, / To embrace you thus, con fuoco, / Would distinctly be no gioco, / And for yam I should get toco— Both: Toco, toco, toco, toco.
noun
1
a toco toucan
The Toco Toucan is surely among the most striking of the toucans, with its black-and-white body and enormous yellow-orange bill. [...] Tocos make loud rattling or clacking sounds with their bills.
Diabetes mellitus has been reported in tocos (R. toco) and keel-billed toucans.
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The School leaders come up furious, and administer toco to the wretched fags nearest at hand; they may well be angry, for it is all Lombard-street to a china orange that the School-house kick a goal w
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Yum-Yum: But as I'm engaged to Ko-Ko, / To embrace you thus, con fuoco, / Would distinctly be no gioco, / And for yam I should get toco— Both: Toco, toco, toco, toco.
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The Toco Toucan is surely among the most striking of the toucans, with its black-and-white body and enormous yellow-orange bill. [...] Tocos make loud rattling or clacking sounds with their bills.
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Diabetes mellitus has been reported in tocos (R. toco) and keel-billed toucans.
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