toon

noun

1. (informal)A cartoon, especially an animated television show.

   “Did you know Nash had a complete break with reality, that he was loonier than a toon for almost four months?”

2. (informal)A player's avatar or visible character in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

   “Proxemics are very important, however, as the positioning of an agent's toon in anon-combat grouping or in the environment can show place within a social group.”

3. (informal)An animated cartoon character.

   “In 1947 Los Angeles, animated cartoon characters, or "toons", co-exist with humans, often employing their skills to entertain as film stars.”

4. (countable, uncountable)A southeast Asian and Australian tree (Toona ciliata or Toona australis) of the mahogany family with fragrant dark red wood and flowers that yield a dye.

   “Each plot held 10 cull trees so that 60 Australian toon and 40 tropical ash trees were treated.”

5. (countable, uncountable)The wood of this tree.

   “After 7 years, all paint combinations except the self-primed latex are showing some failure on all species of wood except Australian toon.”

6. (Northumbria, Scotland)A town.

   “Whan I was a callan, I took the play to mysel' for a week, or maybe twa, and gaed wi' a frien' i' the same trade's mysel', to see what was to be seen alang a screed o' the seacoast, frae toon to toon.”

   “Sic changes owre oor toon hae passed Since Mungo placed thee there — A wee bit slender fragile stem, That needed watchfu' care.”

   “It tane Bill three month fae the time he pairtit wi Beatrice tae get tae the toon o Shanzi. He stuid on a crest as the sin rase, an saw the fortress toon on the neist ridge, a silhouette lichtenin gradually intae ugly breezeblock buildins.”

7. (alt-of, pronunciation-spelling)Eye dialect spelling of tune.

   “But why dress me in bloo? Why not in gray, ef I play Confedrit toons?”

   “Hark at the way them wires plays toons, as if all the imps of wickedness, and—never mind where—was fiddling dismal toons on purpose to drive a man out of his wits, or to scare him so that he couldn't do his work.”

   ““But toon up, and a song all round.””

   “Why suddenly you're so eager to know the toon, now, Dwight? Before you was saying you didn't even hear no toon.”

name

1. (Geordie)The city of Newcastle upon Tyne.
2. A surname.