slang. Also toko.
[Has been suggested to be a humorous adaptation of Gr. τόκος in sense ‘interest,’ in Public School slang.]
Chastisement, corporal punishment.
1823. Bee, Dict. Turf, s.v., If … Blackee gets a whip (toco) about his back, why ‘he has caught toco.’
1857. Hughes, Tom Brown, I. v. The School leaders come up furious and administer toco to the wretched fags nearest at hand.
1903. J. Coleman, C. Reade, II. ii. (1904), 274. They both caught ‘Toko’ when they went back.
