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Toast   /toʊst/   Listen
Toast

noun
1.
Slices of bread that have been toasted.
2.
A celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention.
3.
A person in desperate straits; someone doomed.  Synonym: goner.  "One mistake and you're toast"
4.
A drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event.  Synonym: pledge.
verb
(past & past part. toasted; pres. part. toasting)
1.
Make brown and crisp by heating.  Synonyms: crisp, crispen.  "Crisp potatoes"
2.
Propose a toast to.  Synonyms: drink, pledge, salute, wassail.  "Let's drink to the New Year"



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"Toast" Quotes from Famous Books



... turned over and discussed until the summons came to tea, poured out by kind old Miss Hacket, who had delighted in providing her young guests with buttered toast and tea cakes. ...
— The Two Sides of the Shield • Charlotte M. Yonge
... the loyal toast so that the words "The King!" seemed to ring in every nook of the great hall; then every Cavalier drained ...
— The Lady of Loyalty House - A Novel • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... I could fly!" exclaimed Mary. Jack walked out through the hall to the front door, and stood there thinking, with a hard-boiled egg in one hand and a piece of toast in the other. ...
— Crowded Out o' Crofield - or, The Boy who made his Way • William O. Stoddard
... another chap in regimentals on the front seat, outside, and a great white bear-skin inside that just swallowed us up to the waist, as if we had settled down in a snow-bank of fur. Under that was a muff for your feet, and some contrivance that must have been a foot-stove hid away, for it was as warm as toast. ...
— Phemie Frost's Experiences • Ann S. Stephens
... and slates, and mud; I don't know whether they were banks or walls. Sometimes the horses changed feet on them, sometimes they flew the whole affair, according to their individual judgment. Sometimes we were splashing over sedgy patches that looked and felt like buttered toast, sometimes floundering through stuff resembling an ill-made chocolate souffle, whether intended for a ploughed field or a partially drained bog-hole I could not determine, and all was fenced as carefully as cricket-pitches. Presently ...
— All on the Irish Shore - Irish Sketches • E. Somerville and Martin Ross


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