toco

noun

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping)Clipping of tocodynamometer.
2. (British, obsolete, slang, uncountable)Corporal punishment; chastisement; beatings.

   “The School leaders come up furious, and administer toco to the wretched fags nearest at hand; they may well be angry, for it is all Lombard-street to a china orange that the School-house kick a goal with the ball touched in such a good place.”

   “Yum-Yum: But as I'm engaged to Ko-Ko, / To embrace you thus, con fuoco, / Would distinctly be no gioco, / And for yam I should get toco— Both: Toco, toco, toco, toco.”

3. Synonym of toco toucan

   “The Toco Toucan is surely among the most striking of the toucans, with its black-and-white body and enormous yellow-orange bill. [...] Tocos make loud rattling or clacking sounds with their bills.”

   “Diabetes mellitus has been reported in tocos (R. toco) and keel-billed toucans.”