Toko

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A shop in the Netherlands selling mainly Asian food products, and generally Asian- or Indo-European-owned.
  2. 2
    Alternative spelling of toco (“corporal punishment”). UK, alt-of, alternative, obsolete, slang, uncountable

    "When a reglar Primroser gits toko, one wonders wot next there will come."

Example

More examples

"When a reglar Primroser gits toko, one wonders wot next there will come."

Etymology

From Dutch toko (“Southeast Asian grocery store”), from Indonesian Malay toko (“shop”), from Hokkien 土庫 /土库 (thó͘-khò͘, “private storehouse”).

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.