toast
/toʊst/ noun A2- Bread that has been toasted (cooked lightly by browning). · I ate a piece of toast for breakfast.· This toast and marmalade tastes heavenly.
- A proposed salutation (e.g. saying "cheers") while drinking alcohol. · At the reception, there were many toasts from the well-wishers.
- A person, group, or notable object to which a salutation with alcohol is made; a person or group held in similar esteem. · He was the toast of high society.
- Something that is irreparably damaged or used up, especially when destroyed by heat or fire; something which has been burnt to a crisp or incinerated. · The metal frame survived the fire, but the plastic and rubber bits are toast.
- Something that will be no more; something subject to impending destruction, harm or injury. · to become/be toast· If I ever get my hands on the guy that stole my wallet, he’s toast!
- A type of extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
- A transient, informational pop-up overlay, less interactive than a snackbar.
- A piece of toast.
Plural toasts
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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He sat with his mouth full of toast and his eyes sparkling with mischief, watching my intellectual entanglement.
However, this bottle was _not_ marked “poison,” so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off.
This toast, recalling at once the patient exile of Hartwell and the peace-loving King of France, excited universal enthusiasm; glasses were elevated in the air à l’Anglaise, and the ladies, snatching their bouquets from their fair bosoms, strewed the table with their floral treasures.
“Marquise, marquise!” interposed the old nobleman who had proposed the toast, “let the young people alone; let me tell you, on one’s wedding day there are more agreeable subjects of conversation than dry politics.”
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