toots

toot

1. noun, slang A drinking binge; a drunken spree. Tom went out on a toot with his friends again, which means he'll be coming home around 4 AM totally wasted.
2. noun, slang A small amount of cocaine to inhale through the nose. A: "Hey, man. Want a toot?" B: "No, thanks. I'm not into that stuff." I started doing a toot or two to get me through each morning, but then it spiraled into a much more serious addiction.
3. verb, slang A fart, especially one that is small but audible. I bent over to tie my shoelaces and let out a little toot. To kids, there isn't much that's funnier than toots.
4. verb, slang To snort (some powdered drug, especially cocaine). I walked into a room full of people tooting off a glass table. That's when I knew it was time to leave the party. I used to toot a little coke now and then when I was in college, but I gave that crap up after I graduated.
5. verb, slang To emit a small, often audible fart. Oops! Sorry for tooting! My kids thought it was hilarious when I tooted in front of them.

toot (one's) own horn

To boast or brag about one's own abilities, skills, success, achievements, etc. I don't mean to toot my own horn, but this pasta sauce I made is quite delicious! I can't stand being around Marcus ever since his company became such a massive success. The guy just can't stop tooting his own horn!
See also: horn, own, toot

toot (one's) own trumpet

To boast or brag about one's own abilities, skills, success, achievements, etc. I don't mean to toot my own trumpet, but this pasta sauce I made is quite delicious! I can't stand being around Marcus since his company became such a massive success. The guy just can't stop tooting his own trumpet!
See also: own, toot, trumpet
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

toot

1. n. a binge; a drinking spree. Harry’s on a toot again.
2. tv. & in. to drink copiously. She could toot booze from dusk to dawn.
3. n. an emotional jag of some kind. She’s on a toot about how nobody loves her anymore.
4. n. a line or dose of cocaine; cocaine. These tootheads get sort of frantic when they can’t get a toot.
5. tv. & in. to snort a portion of cocaine. She tooted a couple of lines and came back.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • juice
  • juiced
  • jack
  • jacked
  • jacking
  • mickey mouse
  • garbage
  • edged
  • edging
References in periodicals archive
Toots and the Maytals still hold the record (excuse the pun) for the most number one singles in Jamaica (31) and they have toured the world and recorded with some of the biggest names in popular music.
Toots and Marley were both relative unknowns living in Trench Town when they first became friends, and their mutual respect would last until Marley's death in 1981.
In recent years, Toots has recorded Marley songs with the late great man's sons Damian and Ziggy but - like the music he recorded with Marley when he was alive - it remains as yet unreleased.
The crowd was fully engaged from the word go and the question was whether Toots and the band could sustain that level for the duration of the show.
His nickname "Toots" allegedly comes from the US swing jazz saxophonist Toots Mondello, as well as trumpet player and composer Toots Camarata.
"I've had a lot of support, a lot of help," says Toots, "I'm getting over it.
In 1967, the band officially changed their name to Toots & The Maytals and began working with producer Leslie Kong on a string of hits including Pressure Drop and Do the Reggae, the 1968 single widely credited with coining the word reggae and naming the genre.
Keeping it in the family, Toots' daughter Leba Hibbert opened the set with a reggae style cover of John Waite's '80s classic, Missing You, which she dedicated to all the ladies in the house.
Understated at first but, it turns out, something pretty Pentecostal; this is a reggae revival meeting with Toots the preacher who's blessing us all.
Toots & the Maytals will headline a Saturday benefit show at the fairgrounds to help spread the word about the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act.
BELLE VUE staged their heats of the Bags/SIS 500 yesterday, and Nigel Saunders' DYNAMO DROOPY set the standard in heat one as he beat Bev Heaton's Rock On Toots in 28.56sec.
Now in his 80s, Toots toots tunefully throughout the album.
With the release of iLife '05 and iWork "05 in January, Apple continues to expand and enhance what it calls the "digital lifestyle." The iLife suite includes new versions of the company's popular multimedia applications, iPhoto, for example, now features a selection of photo editing toots not found in previous versions, while iMovie, already used at a number of colleges and universities, now includes the ability to capture and edit high-definition video.
"There was a day in 1812 when the Mississippi River flowed backwards," Toots tells a group of guests while steaming down the Ohio River on the way to the confluence of two great rivers.
But in the process of metabolizing, the microbes give off gaseous waste that produces your toots. (You also produce gas when body cells metabolize nutrients, but this gas escapes the body via the lungs at exhale.)