Meaning of toco | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Clipping of tocodynamometer.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
2. Corporal punishment; chastisement; beatings.
   British, obsolete, slang, uncountable
3. a toco toucan

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Examples

“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.”

“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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