subs. (common).—Generic for food; GRUB (q.v.): spec. bread. Also (rare) = a piece, lump, portion.
1877. W. H. THOMSON, Five Years’ Penal Servitude, i. 4. Some prisoner who … had forgotten to eat what in prison slang is called his ‘TOKE’ or ‘chuck.’
1898. MARSHALL, Pomes, 62. To a coffee-house he hied, And consumed some unkind Mocha, half a haddock, and some TOKE.
1899. R. WHITEING, No. 5 John Street, xx. When the show was shut, I … sits down to my TOKE and pipe.
Verb (The Leys School).—To LOAF (q.v.); to idle.
