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TOOT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party

Synonyms:

bender; booze-up; carousal; carouse; toot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("toot" is a kind of...):

revel; revelry (unrestrained merrymaking)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A blast of a horn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("toot" is a kind of...):

sound (the sudden occurrence of an audible event)

Derivation:

toot (make a loud noise)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a loud noise

Example:

The horns of the taxis blared

Synonyms:

beep; blare; claxon; honk; toot

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "toot" is one way to...):

go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "toot"):

tootle (play (a musical instrument) casually)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence examples:

Cars toot in the streets

The streets toot with cars

Derivation:

toot (a blast of a horn)

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