toby
IPA: tˈoʊbi
noun
- A drinking mug, in the shape of a human head with a hat atop; a Toby jug.
- (Britain, New Zealand) The valve that mediates the connection between a mains water-supply and a premises's own plumbing.
- (UK, dated, slang) The road or highway.
- (US, dated, regional) A kind of inferior cigar of a long slender shape, tapered at one end.
- The Moorish idol, Zanclus cornutus
- Any of several species of pufferfish in the genus Canthigaster
- A male given name from Hebrew.
- (rare) A female given name from Hebrew.
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
- (chiefly UK) in the traditional Punch and Judy show the showman's (live) dog trained to take part in the puppet show and to carry a bag around the audience soliciting donations.
- The superintendent of a street market.
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Examples of "toby" in Sentences
- Write to Toby Anderson at toby.anderson @dowjones.com
- "'Toby [The highway] or not toby, that is the question.'
- Okay, finally time to knock off work, go home, and relax ... toby says:
- What they do question is your facile Sunday school narrative. toby Says:
- So the politics don't get in the way of justice and law enforcement. toby hill
- He calls the terrorist pals, joe, ed, and toby, and tells them when to go board the plane.
- Hence joe, ed and toby get ignored becasue the TSA doesnt have enough screeners to check male passengers.
- I think most folks ascribe this narrative to foreign policy tendencies, but I think it gets reinforced by obstructionism. toby says:
- Bob, Teabaggers Are Terrorists, wurst says: yeah PD, when toby fricken keith wants to put his boot up yer ass, you have problems with the teabaggers.
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