colloq. [Short for total or L. totum: see also TOTE sb.1] The total of an addition, sometimes having tot. written against it; hence, an addition sum; also (tot-up) the action of TOT v.2; adding up, totalling.
[1690. Pepys, Mem. Royal Navy, 36. Repaires, l. 132000, Sea-stores, l. 88000. Tot, 220,000.]
1871. Standard, 13 Feb. The task of going over the cards … and comparing the lists, and doing the general tot-up, is very arduous.
1879. C. Marvin, Our Public Offices, 11. I fell upon the row of ‘tots’ with the same vigour.
1894. Daily News, 14 July, 5/1. He has seen children in Standards IV and V using their fingers freely during the examination, and even trying to do ‘tots’ by this cumbrous method.
