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toting

[ toh-ting ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Southern U.S.

the practice of taking home food from an employer by a person engaged in domestic service.
the food so taken.

Origin of toting¹

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60; tote ¹ + -ing ¹

Before Matthew VanDyke was a gun-toting rebel in Libya, he was just a 29-year-old with OCD, afraid of sugar.

Hell hath no fury like a smartphone-toting, partially informed One Directioner.

WHO: Vuitton-toting socialites, jumpsuit-adorned maintenance workers and shorts-wearing tatted musicians circle the block.

And the number of such breaches is climbing as fast as the number of people toting laptops.

What possible change can any one citizen instigate against that barrage of anti-intellectual, gun-toting paranoia?

The young chap was mighty thankful; said it was tough work toting his baggage such weather.

Boff ob yu is jist got tu git outen de grate house und stop toting wittles tu de po white trash.

And when the other got tired of toting me and wanted to kill me, then it was that this one ran up and took me away from him.

He didn't do nothing to me but look ugly at me, when this one would be toting me on his back across the creeks and up the hills.

"It ain't always convenient toting a young girl round with you," said Mrs. Talcott.

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