as in drunk
a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking
about every six months he disappears for a week and goes on a toot
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Recent Examples of toot
The ideal push, according to Barten, feels more like a sneaky toot.
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Julia Ries, SELF, 6 Sep. 2024
Advice Carolyn Hax: Parents fight grown child’s career change and relocation ‘toot...
Perspective
Carolyn Hax: The parents of their son’s friend seem to be ducking invitatio...
—Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
Setting action bricks along the track makes the train toot the horn, change direction, or turn the lights on or off.
—Nena Farrell, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023
Gwyneth Paltrow has boarded the Skims train, toot toot!!
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 20 Sep. 2023
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Julia Ries, SELF, 6 Sep. 2024
Advice Carolyn Hax: Parents fight grown child’s career change and relocation ‘toot...
Perspective
Carolyn Hax: The parents of their son’s friend seem to be ducking invitatio...
—Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
Setting action bricks along the track makes the train toot the horn, change direction, or turn the lights on or off.
—Nena Farrell, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023
Gwyneth Paltrow has boarded the Skims train, toot toot!!
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 20 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for toot
Noun
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Similar lawsuits have been filed against authorities who’ve mistaken stroke victims for drunks.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
7 Feb. 2025
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Is Karen really a drunk, or is this a persistent rumor?—
Shamira Ibrahim,
Vulture,
27 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The early years of the pandemic saw a massive hiring spree in tech, fueled in part by shifting consumer spending habits amid lockdowns.—
Bailey Schulz,
USA TODAY,
15 Feb. 2025
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Los Angeles then doubled down with another spending spree, adding, retaining or extending pricey players like Blake Snell, Tanner Scott, Blake Treinen, Kirby Yates, Michael Conforto, Tommy Edman, Teoscar Hernández and Clayton Kershaw, among others.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
14 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Just try to focus on the good and power through the binge.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
18 Feb. 2025
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The hope is the shorter games, as well as one young team among the final four, will make for a more competitive atmosphere as opposed to half-effort 3-point binge shooting, low-difficulty lob pass and dunk attempts and a general disinterest in playing defense.—
Jerry McDonald,
The Mercury News,
14 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Occasionally the gods stop by, blast some ABBA, go on elysian benders that leave no residue of human suffering, and complain about their terrible kids, who are going to live forever.—
Hannah Gold,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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Compounding the lousy feeling in your brain, the inflammation that alcohol causes can be tough on the gut the day after a bender, says Dr. Sally Adams, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Birmingham.—
Betsy Andrews,
Saveur,
9 Jan. 2025
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“Toot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toot. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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