[tohst] 
,| 1. | sliced bread that has been browned by dry heat. |
| 2. | to brown, as bread or cheese, by exposure to heat. |
| 3. | to heat or warm thoroughly at a fire: She toasted her feet at the fireplace. |
| 4. | to become toasted. |
| 5. | be toast, Slang. to be doomed, ruined, or in trouble: If you're late to work again, you're toast! |
[tohst] ,| 1. | a salutation or a few words of congratulation, good wishes, appreciation, remembrance, etc., uttered immediately before drinking to a person, event, etc. |
| 2. | a person, event, sentiment, or the like, in honor of whom another or others raise their glasses in salutation and then drink. |
| 3. | an act or instance of thus drinking: They drank a toast to the queen. |
| 4. | a call on another or others to drink to some person or thing. |
| 5. | a person who is celebrated as with the spirited homage of a toast: She was the toast of five continents. |
| 6. | to drink to the health of or in honor of; propose a toast to or in honor of. |
| 7. | to propose as a toast. |
| 8. | to propose or drink a toast. |
| toast 1 (tōst) v. toast·ed, toast·ing, toasts v. tr.
To become toasted: This bread toasts well. n.
[Middle English tosten, from Old French toster, from Vulgar Latin *tostāre, frequentative of Latin torrēre, to parch, burn; see ters- in Indo-European roots.] |
| toast 2 (tōst) n.
v. tr. To drink to the health or honor of. v. intr. To propose or drink a toast. [Perhaps from toast1 (from the use of spiced toast to flavor drinks).] |
toast jargon
1. Any completely inoperable system or component, especially one that has just crashed and burned: "Uh, oh ... I think the serial board is toast."
2. To cause a system to crash accidentally, especially in a manner that requires manual rebooting. "Rick just toasted the firewall machine again."
Compare fried.
(1995-05-01)