English Explanatory Dictionary

toco for yam

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Retribution; punishment.

Word forms

toco for yam toko for yam

Etymology

See toco (“corporal punishment”); but the construction is uncertain and has been variously explained in slang dictionaries. It may have the sense of one thing given for another in retribution (like tit for tat), or may suggest a beating given instead of food (yam being food in West Indian pidgin).

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