Meaning of Tot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small child.
2. A total, an addition of a long column of figures.
3. Initialism of Trail of Tears.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
4. Initialism of tip of the tongue.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
5. A small amount of liquor, (particularly) a small measure of rum.
6. Initialism of turnover tax.
   Kenya, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
7. Ellipsis of tater tot.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
8. Initialism of transfer of technology.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
9. A small cup, usually made of tin.
   Barbados
10. Initialism of time over target
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
11. A foolish fellow.
    UK, dialectal, obsolete
12. Initialism of time on target
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“He learned to run when he was just a tot.”

“When I was but a tiny tot, I knocked the neighbors cold / For I became to walk when I was scarcely one year old”

“Death conditioning begins at eighteen months. Every tot spends two mornings a week in a Hospital for the Dying. All the best toys are kept there, and they get chocolate cream on death days.”

“Then I give them a tot of rum apiece, as they sit huddled in their blankets.”

“And tot of rum to send him warm to sleep.”

“Whoe answeared like a toute, or a maddman, as he was, that he was for the Kinge.”

“When experiencing a TOT, people not only retrieve a blocked word's sound and meaning; they also know some of its grammatical properties.”

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