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toast noun- something that is completely broken or inoperable US
- — Eric S. Raymond, The New Hacker’s Dictionary, p. 353, 1991
- “Twin Peaks is toast. It’s had it. It won’t make it another season.” “Toast?” He chuckled. “People say this? Where do you pick this shit up?” — Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon, p. 34, 1992
- a forest that has been burnt by a forest fire US
- — American Speech, pp. 205–209, Summer 1991: “The language of smokejumping–again”
- a narrative poem US
- Perhaps the best known of all toasts, “The Signifying Monkey” is the prototype of an interrelated series of jungle poems. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 21, 1976
- an amusing story told as part of a rap performance US
Adopted from a West Indian DJ’s “toast” (to perform a lyric). - [T]he telling of humorous stories (known as “toasts”) and the quick and witty taunts known as “snaps”[.] — James Haskins, The Story of Hip-Hop, pp. 52–53, 2000
- Toasts were, and still are, used to entertain, but also to insult and taunt another[.] — James Haskins, The Story of Hip-Hop, p. 54, 2000
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