or toko, subs. (common).—Chastisement: hence TO GIVE TOCO = to thrash.
1823. BADCOCK (‘Jon Bee’), Dictionary of the Turf, etc., s.v. TOCO. If … Blackee gets a whip about his back, why he has caught TOCO.
1857. T. HUGHES, Tom Brown’s School-days, I. v. The school leaders come up furious, and administer TOCO to the wretched fags.
1893. MILLIKEN, ’Arry Ballads, 58, ‘On Law and Order.’ When a reglar Primroser gits TOKO, one wonders wot next there will come.
