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Noun: toast  towst
  1. Sliced bread browned by radiant heat (from a grill, toaster etc.)
     
  2. A drink in honour of or to the health of a person or event
    - pledge
     
  3. A celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention
    "he was the toast of the town"
     
  4. [informal] A person in desperate straits; someone doomed
    "one mistake and you're toast";
    - goner [informal]
Verb: toast  towst
  1. (cooking) make brown and crisp by heating
    "toast bread";
    - crispen, crisp
     
  2. Propose a toast to
    "Let us toast the birthday girl!";
    - drink, pledge, salute, wassail [archaic]

Derived forms: toasts, toasted, toasting

Type of: bread, breadstuff, celeb [informal], celebrity, desperate, drink, famous person, fete, fĂȘte, heat, heat up, honor [US], honour [Brit, Cdn], reward, staff of life

Encyclopedia: Toast, North Carolina