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tool
verb- to drive, to go, to travel, usually in a carefree manner US
Originally of horse-drawn transports, applied in the C20 to motor vehicles, boats and aircraft. - — Hot Rod Magazine, p. 13, November 1948: “Racing jargon”
- They gave me their official permission to tool out to the beach[.] — Frederick Kohner, Gidget, p. 79, 1957
- It helped to think of old times, carefree days in HIillsborough when she and Binky and Muffy would snitch the keys to Daddy’s Mercedes and tool down to the Fillmore to tease the black studs lurking on the street corners. — Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, p. 94, 1978
- I tool the car out of the drive. That’s what people do with cars in books. They don’t execute a manoeuvre, they tool. So I tool the car out the gravel drive[.] — Simon Lewis, In The Box, p. britpulp 128, 1999
- First, I tooled up to Viscount “Dave” Linley’s Pimlico furniture shop[.] — ES Magazine, p. 3, 22 June 2001
- to wander aimlessly; to do nothing in particular US, 1932
The variant “tool around” is also used. - — Current Slang, p. 4, Summer 1966
- All I ever did in high school was tool around with the guys and a six-pack of Bud, looking for heterosexuals to beat up. — Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, p. 134, 1978
- to have sex US
- — Judi Sanders, Faced and Faded, Hanging to Hurl, p. 41, 1993
- to slash a person with a razor UK
- — Frank Norman, Encounter, 1959
- to work hard US
- — Andy Ihnatko, Cyberspeak, p. 192, 1997
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