toke

¹

[ tohk ]

noun

1. a tip or gratuity given by a gambler to a dealer or other employee at a casino.

verb (used without object)

, toked, tok·ing.

1. to provide a toke.

verb (used with object)

, toked, tok·ing.

1. to give a toke to.

toke

²

[ tohk ]

noun

1. a puff of a marijuana cigarette.

verb (used with object)

, toked, tok·ing.

1. to light up or puff (a marijuana cigarette).

verb (used without object)

, toked, tok·ing.

1. to puff a marijuana cigarette (often followed by up ).

toke

/ təʊk /

noun

1. a draw on a cannabis cigarette

verb

1. intr to take a draw on a cannabis cigarette

Derived Forms

• ˈtoker, noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of toke¹

First recorded in 1970–75; origin uncertain

Origin of toke²

An Americanism dating back to 1950–55; origin uncertain

Example Sentences

Having access to the tokes at home is “the only reason I’m alive today,” he told the committee.

From Washington Times

Private eye Happy Doll checks many of the requisite boxes for brooding introspection — troubled childhood, ex-Navy, ex-cop — but Ames updates this archetype by making Doll “an armchair Buddhist” who tokes up more than he drinks.

From Washington Post

Although he's admitted to a youthful dalliance with the Class B drug, London's mayor didn't take the opportunity for a toke on what was a fact-finding tour of a California dispensary.

From BBC

Did they take jumbo tokes of clownishly large doobies along they way?

From Los Angeles Times

Having grown up speaking Spanish at home and then English at school, he’s forever fascinated by “a third language: American” — that mercurial dialect of metaphors, idioms and profanities, e.g. toke, baked, holy cow.

From Washington Post