toots

noun

Definition of tootsnext
plural of toot
as in drunks
a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking about every six months he disappears for a week and goes on a toot

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Recent Examples of toots At one point, our float’s music and laughter brought friendly waves from passengers on a passing cruise boat, along with toots from the ship’s horn. — Claudia Laroye, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Nov. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for toots
  1. drunks
  2. sprees
  3. binges
  4. benders
Noun
  • Give me the drunks, the nightclub comics, the vaudevillians, the hustlers, and the people doing three shows a night for 20 bucks and a sandwich.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2026
  • Lee, emerging from the dark woods beyond McMann’s cabin, gets picked up by a guy who nicknames himself the Boontill Oracle, a do-gooder who waits outside highway bars to give safe rides to local drunks.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of drunks
Noun
  • But 15 years is a long time to wait for a company to fork over the goods, and data centers are hardly known for going on long-term hiring sprees.
    — Sara Herschander, Vox, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Last weekend, more than 2,700 people were arrested during protests that later turned into riots and looting sprees.
    — James Cirrone , Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of sprees
Noun
  • As Netflix builds its library of shows, live events bring people back to the service and keep them signed up between binges.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 21 Oct. 2026
  • What had started as regular media binges in college had spiraled out of control.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of binges
Noun
  • This means the choice should be somebody who, for instance, isn’t going to sound off divisively about politics, get into messy domestic disputes or start going on public benders.
    — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2026
  • And as if things couldn’t be any worse, there are fewer and fewer benders born each year.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of benders

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“Toots.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toots. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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