tot

plural tots

1. A small child.

   He learned to run when he was just a tot.

   2 more examples

   When I was but a tiny tot, I knocked the neighbors cold / For I became to walk when I was scarcely one year old

   1907, Dave Reed Jr, “You'll Have to Get Off and Walk: Comic Novelty Song and Refrain”, M. Witmark & Sons

   Death conditioning begins at eighteen months. Every tot spends two mornings a week in a Hospital for the Dying. All the best toys are kept there, and they get chocolate cream on death days.

   1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, London: Chatto & Windus

   Synonyms: toddler

2. A small amount of liquor, (particularly) a small measure of rum.

   And tot of rum to send him warm to sleep.

   1916, Siegfried Sassoon, The Working Party

   1 more example

   Then I give them a tot of rum apiece, as they sit huddled in their blankets.

   1897, Mary H. Kingsley, Travels in West Africa

   Synonyms: nip

3. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of tater tot.
4. BarbadosA small cup, usually made of tin.
5. UKdialectalobsoleteA foolish fellow.

   Whoe answeared like a toute, or a maddman, as he was, that he was for the Kinge.

   a. 1660, A Contemporary History Of Affairs In Ireland

present singular third person tots · participle present totting · participle past totted · past totted

1. To sum or total.

   There are, of course, many ways to proceed from here, the most likely being that you, as an experienced tradesman, would simply know what these amounts come to (in terms of groups of ten) and can tot them up in your head.

   2017, Paul Lockhart, Arithmetic

2. UKhistoricalTo mark (a debt) with the word tot (Latin for "so much"), indicating that it was good or collectible for the amount specified.

   a totted debt

plural tots

1. A total, an addition of a long column of figures.

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Trail of Tears.

plural TOTs

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablehuman sciencesInitialism of tip of the tongue.

   When experiencing a TOT, people not only retrieve a blocked word's sound and meaning; they also know some of its grammatical properties.

   2001, Daniel L. Schacter, chapter 3, in The Seven Sins of Memory, How the Mind Forgets and Remembers, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN

2. KenyaabbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableeconomicsInitialism of turnover tax.
3. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of transfer of technology.
4. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablegovernmentInitialism of time over target
5. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablegovernmentInitialism of time on target