toastnoun
uk/təʊst/us/toʊst/toast noun (BREAD)
A2 [ U ] sliced bread made warm, crisp (= hard enough to break), and brown by being put near a high heat:
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- As it was a cold morning, she stoked up on bacon, eggs and beans on toast.
- They breakfasted hurriedly on tea and toast.
- She spread her toast with a thick layer of butter.
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Bread
- bagel
- baguette
- bannock
- bap
- barm cake
- chapatti
- chupatti
- ciabatta
- cob
- corn bread
- French stick
- garlic bread
- Granary Bread
- hallah
- hot cross bun
- pitta
- poppadom
- pumpernickel
- roti
- rye bread
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toast noun (DRINK)
C1 [ C ] an expression of good wishes or respect for someone that involves holding up and then drinking from a glass of alcohol, especially wine, after a short speech:
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Drinking alcohol
- after hours idiom
- bender
- binge drinking
- booze
- booze-up
- drinking
- drinking-up time
- drown your sorrows idiom
- Dutch courage
- happy hour
- hatch
- mud
- on the booze idiom
- out of hours idiom
- piss-up
- poison
- pub crawl
- put sth back
- shout
- spike
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Idiom(s)
toastverb [ T ]
uk/təʊst/us/toʊst/toast verb [ T ] (HEAT)
to make bread or other food warm, crisp (= hard enough to break), and brown by putting it near a high heat:
informal to warm yourself or part of your body:
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Preparing food using heat
- bake
- barbecue
- baste
- batch-bake
- boil sth up
- boiled
- curry
- flambé
- flash-fry
- fried
- frizzled
- fry
- microwave
- precook
- preheat
- render
- render sth down
- rendering
- sauté
- shallow-fry
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toast verb [ T ] (DRINK)
to hold up your glass and then drink as an expression of good wishes or respect:
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Drinking alcohol
- after hours idiom
- bender
- binge drinking
- booze
- booze-up
- drinking
- drinking-up time
- drown your sorrows idiom
- Dutch courage
- happy hour
- hatch
- mud
- on the booze idiom
- out of hours idiom
- piss-up
- poison
- pub crawl
- put sth back
- shout
- spike
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