tooth and nail
Fiercely and with all one's strength
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tooth duller
Hardtack.
tooth-pick
A large stick. An ironical expression.
toothpaste is out of the tube
A decision or action cannot be undone
toothypeg
tooth
tootsies
Feet, those of ladies and children in particular. In married life it is said the husband uses this expression for the first six months; after that he terms them "hoofs."
top
The signal among tailors and sempstresses for snuffing the candle; one cries TOP, and all the others follow; he who last pronounces the word has to snuff the candle.
top and tail
To edit or revise the beginning and end of a piece of writing
top banana
The most important or high-ranking person
top bollocks
breasts
top cat
The most important or dominant person
top diver
A lover of women. An old top diver; one who has loved old hat in his time.
top dollar
the highest price or amount of money
top drawer
Of extremely high quality or excellence
top end of town
The most wealthy or prestigious part of a community
top it off
to add a final touch or amount to something
top jint
(vulgar pronunciation of joint), a pint—of beer.
top lights
The eyes. Blast your top lights. See CURSE.
top notch
Of extremely high quality
top of mind
most prominent or remembered in someone's thoughts
top of the hour
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
top of the line
Of the highest quality or best type available
top of the morning
Good morning, a greeting
top oneself
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
top ropes
To sway away on all top ropes; to live riotously or extravagantly.
top shelf
Of exceptionally high quality
top the charts
to be the most popular or successful
top to bottom
Completely or thoroughly
top up
to add a small amount to something
top up
A finishing drink. "He drank two bottles of claret and one of port, which he TOPPED UP with half a bottle of brandy."
top-dressing
In journalism, is the large-type introduction to a report, generally written by a man of higher literary attainments than the ordinary reporter who follows with the details.
top-heavy with drink
Drunk or intoxicated
top-sawyer
The principal of a party, or profession. "A TOP-SAWYER signifies a man that is a master-genius in any profession. It is a piece of Norfolk slang, and took its rise from Norfolk being a great timber county, where the TOP SAWYERS get double the wages of those beneath them."—Randall’s Diary, 1820.
toper
One that loves his bottle, a soaker. SEE TO SOAK.
topkick
A sergeant.
topos
A toilet.
topped
Hanged, or executed.
topper
A violent blow on the head.
topper
Anything or person above the ordinary; a blow on the head. "Give him a TOPPER and chance it," "Let him have a TOPPER for luck."
topping fellow
One at the top or head of his profession.
topple over
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
toppy
Fellatio.
topsy-turvy
The bottom upwards. Grose gives an ingenious etymology of this once cant term, viz., "top-side turf-ways,"—turf being always laid the wrong side upwards. This is so far ingenious that it creates a fact for the purpose of arguing from it. Turfs are laid with the grass part together during carriage; so, anyhow, the definition could be only half right. In fact, TOPSY-TURVY is but short for "top-side t’other way."
torchlight tattoo
A military entertainment, carried out at night in the open air with illuminations, evolutions, and a lot of music.
tormentors
The large iron flesh-forks used by cooks at sea.
torpids
The second-class race-boats at Oxford, answering to the Cambridge "sloggers."
torque off
to annoy or irritate someone
torqued off
extremely angry or annoyed
torrac
A carrot. "Ekat a TORRAC."
tory
An advocate for absolute monarchy and church power; also an Irish vagabond, robber, Or rapparee.
toshers
Men who steal copper from ships’ bottoms in the Thames.
toss
A measure of sprats.—Billingsgate.
toss and turn
To have trouble sleeping due to stress or discomfort
toss one's cookies
To vomit.
tot
A small glass; a "TOT o’ whisky" is the smallest quantity sold.
tot-up
To add together,—as columns of figures, £ s. d. From TOTAL-UP, through the vulgarism TOTTLE.
total package
Someone with all desirable qualities
totem pote
The post standing before a dwelling on which grotesque and, frequently, brilliantly coloured representations of the totem were carved or hung. It is often of great size, and sometimes so broad at the base that an archway is cut through it.
totting
Bone-picking, either peripatetically or at the dust-heaps. "TOT" is a bone, but chiffoniers and cinder-hunters generally are called TOT-PICKERS nowadays. TOTTING also has its votaries on the banks of the Thames, where all kinds of flotsam and jetsam, from coals to carrion, are known as TOTS.
totty-headed
Giddy, hare-brained.
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