(v. i.) To blow or sound a horn; to make similar noise by contact of the tongue with the root of the upper teeth at the beginning and end of the sound; also, to give forth such a sound, as a horn when blown.
(v. t.) To cause to sound, as a horn, the note being modified at the beginning and end as if by pronouncing the letter t; to blow; to sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Balakrishnan group's beliefs were mocked in the diary column of the Times, prompting speculation that it may have been a partial model for the Tooting Popular Front, the ludicrous political movement in Citizen Smith, the BBC sitcom, which began in 1977.
(2) Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian At the cutting edge, literally, of NHS treatment, we saw “awake craniotomy” at St George’s hospital, Tooting, south London.
(3) Also, in common with many other criminals, after the scandal of the taping of the current minister of state, Department for Transport, the right honourable member for Tooting [Sadiq Khan], on a prison visit, he believes all these meetings are taped and he says this will back him up.
(4) So I don't actually care whether Gideon had a toot or not.
(5) They shouldn’t have made you feed in a way you didn’t want to, it’s illegal.” Tooting Baby (@Tootingbaby) .
(6) It is now being stopped entirely in Wimbledon, Tooting and Mitcham.
(7) Khan’s side points out that Goldsmith himself invited Gani – who the Tory candidate now describes as “one of the most repellent men in the country” – to a campaign event at the Tooting Islamic Centre.
(8) Khan has been MP for Tooting since 2005 and a government whip since last year.
(9) Janet Eades, a retired teacher from Wandsworth who is leading the campaign against the free school, said: "I would like to know what the demand and need is for this school in Tooting, which was deemed viable by the department of education because there was a need in Lambeth.
(10) Fire engines were sent from East Ham, Ilford, Plaistow, Stratford, Shadwell, Millwall, Homerton, Dagenham, East Greenwich and Tooting fire stations.
(11) Theresa Drzewiecka, 55, is a nurse at the Tooting practice, and said that people also saw her because they were confident of her training.
(12) The odd white van toots at this mass of running students.
(13) The mother was taken to St George's hospital, Tooting, south London, and arrested on suspicion of murder after treatment to minor wounds.
(14) You do not want to be lab rats in the first Corbyn economic experiment in public life.” Khan, the MP for Tooting, has previously sought to distance himself from the Labour leadership, arguing that a key part of the job of London mayor is to be an advocate for the capital and not for a political party.
(15) The generosity of my constituents in Tooting, and people across Britain, has been truly inspiring.
(16) The idea that those people are going to switch to Labour doesn’t make sense.” On the streets of Springboig in the late morning sunshine, Curran cuts a familiar figure, enjoying tooting car horns and welcoming handshakes.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An ‘awake craniotomy’ at St George’s hospital, Tooting, south London.
(18) The Metronews freesheet went further, saying a Khan victory would make the Tooting MP “ the first Muslim mayor of a European capital ”.
(19) In Tooting, south London, classes showing parents invaluable skills such as how to administer CPR and stop a child from choking will be held at the Trafalgar pub, near St George’s hospital.
(20) The MP for Tooting has demanded ministers put an end to individuals using anonymous off-shore tax havens to buy up houses and land.
Tout
Definition:
(v. i.) To act as a tout. See 2d Tout.
(v. i.) To ply or seek for customers.
(n.) One who secretly watches race horses which are in course of training, to get information about their capabilities, for use in betting.
(v. i.) To toot a horn.
(n.) The anus.
Example Sentences:
(1) The party she led still touts itself as the bunch you can trust with the nation's money.
(2) Nevertheless, the historic poll is being touted by foreign governments as the first credible election in half a century.
(3) For example, the Basics Card is touted as an innovative policy when in fact it offers repugnant flashbacks to last century’s mission days when Aboriginal people had their bank accounts controlled by the state.
(4) If the Bicep2 result stands, the observation will be touted as evidence for cosmic inflation, the rapid expansion of the universe around a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the big bang.
(5) Adelson has touted the merits of a Trump trip to Israel and is working with conservative allies to lay the groundwork for a visit this summer, according to multiple sources close to the casino owner.
(6) The American musician’s unexpected political intervention came in the wake of a much-touted but ultimately disappointing dialogue between government officials and student leaders.
(7) Both tout their domestic credentials and experiences of motherhood.
(8) Bush marked his 100 days with a barnstorming tour of six states in four days to tout his achievements.
(9) In their zeal to tout their faith in the public square, conservatives in Oklahoma may have unwittingly opened the door to a wide range of religious groups, including Satanists who are seeking to put their own statue next to a Ten Commandments monument outside the statehouse.
(10) The coalition's much-touted manufacturing renaissance is so far confined to a roundabout of hi-tech firms in east London, and British industry remains largely a bit-player, making and assembling parts for foreign companies.
(11) Culture secretary Sajid Javid has said that ticket touts are “classic entrepreneurs” and their detractors are the “chattering middle classes and champagne socialists, who have no interest in helping the common working man earn a decent living by acting as a middleman”.
(12) Indeed, politicians of all stripes love to tout the adversity their parents overcame so that their children could be successful and live comfortably.
(13) At the event on Wednesday, Giuliani touted his record of surveilling mosques after the 1993 World Trade Center attack “I put undercover agents in mosques for the first time in January 1994,” he said.
(14) When Zuley came down, they were able to tout him as ‘Hell yeah, he’s just like you guys, he’s a detective’ and this and that,” Fallon said.
(15) Due to a decade of tri-annual BBC2 exposure, dogged Dantean circuits of provincial comedy venues, conscious manipulation of vulnerable broadsheet opinion formers and undeserved good luck, I am now popular enough to have caught the eye of touts or, as we now dignify them, Secondary Ticketing Agents™.
(16) Fiber is currently being touted as protection against colon cancer.
(17) Worthy accoucheurs will have planned for this event and will have selected from the numerous procedures touted for its correction that group he or she intuitively feels will be most effective or, at a minimum, most easily remembered.
(18) When blatant falsehoods are presented as truth on critical questions - by a film that touts itself as a journalistic presentation of actual events - insisting on apolitical appreciation of this "art" is indeed a reckless abdication.
(19) Numerous documents prove that executives at leading banks, credit agencies, and mortgage brokers were falsely touting assets as sound that knew were junk: the very definition of fraud.
(20) Three possible candidates touted to become Iran’s next supreme leader: Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani: The 80-year-old moderate politician was among the founding members of the Islamic republic and its president, from 1989 to 1997.