TOT

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English

Proper noun

TOT

  1. Initialism of Trail of Tears.

Noun

TOT (countable and uncountable, plural TOTs)

  1. (psychology) Initialism of tip of the tongue.
    • 2001, Daniel L. Schacter, chapter 3, in The Seven Sins of Memory, How the Mind Forgets and Remembers, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN:
      When experiencing a TOT, people not only retrieve a blocked word's sound and meaning; they also know some of its grammatical properties.
  2. (taxation, Kenya) Initialism of turnover tax.

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