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toby

nouncommon in dialogue

A drinking mug, in the shape of a human head with a hat atop; a Toby jug.

noun

  1. 1

    A drinking mug, in the shape of a human head with a hat atop; a Toby jug.

  2. 2

    The valve that mediates the connection between a mains water-supply and a premises's own plumbing.

  3. 3

    datedThe road or highway.

    It is no wonder that itinerant agricultural workers travel on the toby and sleep in casual wards between jobs.

  4. 4

    datedA kind of inferior cigar of a long slender shape, tapered at one end.

  5. 5

    The Moorish idol, Zanclus cornutus

  6. 6

    Any of several species of pufferfish in the genus Canthigaster

Forms

plural
tobies
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).