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1Tote — Nombre Jorge López Marco Apodo …
2Tote — may refer to: *Tote, abbreviation for Totalisator, the name for the computerised system which runs parimutuel betting, calculating payoff odds, displaying them, and producing tickets based on incoming bets **Tote Tasmania, Tasmanian totalisator… …
3Tote — Tote, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Toted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Toting}.] [Said to be of African origin.] To carry or bear; as, to tote a child over a stream; to tote a gun on one s hip; a colloquial word originating in the Southern States, and used there… …
4Tote — Tote, n. [L. totum, fr. totus all, whole.] The entire body, or all; as, the whole tote. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] …
5tote — also tote around v [T] [Date: 1600 1700; Origin: Perhaps from Gullah tot to carry , probably from a West African language] informal especially AmE to carry something, especially regularly ▪ Kids have to tote heavy textbooks around …
6tote — Ⅰ. tote [1] ► NOUN (the tote) informal ▪ a system of betting based on the use of the totalizator, in which dividends are calculated according to the amount staked rather than odds offered. Ⅱ. tote [2] ► VERB informal, chiefly N. Amer. ▪ carry …
7Tote — [təut US tout] n the Tote a system in Britain in which a machine adds together the amounts of money ↑bet on a horse race and divides the total among the people who bet on the winner …
8tote — (v.) to carry, 1670s, of unknown origin; originally attested in Virginia, but OED discounts the popular theory of its origin in a W.African language (Cf. Kikongo tota pick up, Kimbundu tuta carry, load, related to Swahili tuta pile up, carry ).… …
9tote — ☆ tote1 [tōt ] vt. toted, toting [prob. of Afr orig., as in Kongo tota, to pick up] Informal 1. to carry or haul, esp. in the arms or on the back 2. to be armed with (a gun, etc.) n. 1. Informal a) the act of toting …
10tote — index carry (transport), transport Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
