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Toast (honor)
Toast (honor): a spoken tribute with raised glasses honoring a person or sentiment. Word comes from spiced toast placed in wine; drinking sense attested 1690s; poison-clinking story apocryphal.
Toast of London
Toast of London is a Channel 4 sitcom co-written by Matt Berry and Arthur Mathews, starring Berry as fading actor Steven Toast. Pilot 2012, three series 2013-2015, Rose D'Or-winning.
Toast sandwich
Toast sandwich: a Victorian sandwich of thin cold toast between two slices of bread-and-butter with pepper and salt, from the invalid cookery chapter of Isabella Beeton's 1861 Book of Household Management.
Toaster (film)
Toaster is a 2026 Hindi-language Netflix dark comedy directed by Vivek Das Chaudhary, starring Rajkummar Rao as miser Ramakant and Sanya Malhotra; Kampa Film's debut production, released April 15, 2026.
Toba Tek Singh (ٹوبہ ٹیک سنگھ) (short story)
Manto's 1955 Urdu short story ٹوبہ ٹیک سنگھ (Toba Tek Singh), a Partition satire set in a Lahore asylum where Sikh inmate Bishan Singh dies in no man's land during the 1950 patient exchange.
Tobacco
Tobacco is a Nicotiana plant whose addictive, nicotine-rich leaves are smoked, chewed, or heated; its use causes cancer and more than 7 million deaths each year.
Tobacco Dock
Tobacco Dock is a Grade I listed 1812 tobacco warehouse in Wapping, East London, relaunched in 2012 as an events venue hosting large-scale electronic music parties.
Tobacco packaging warning messages
Tobacco packaging warning messages are mandated health warnings on tobacco packs, governed by WHO FCTC Article 11. First US text warning 1965; Canada first pictorial warnings 2001; nearly 120 countries now use graphic labels.
Tobacco Road (novel)
Tobacco Road is Erskine Caldwell's 1932 novel about the destitute Lester sharecropper family near Augusta, Georgia, during the Depression; it drew eugenics scholarship, censorship efforts, and a record 3,182-performance Broadway run.
Tobago Carnival (festival)
Tobago Carnival is a masquerade festival on Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago, with a pre-Lenten carnival alongside Trinidad's and an October carnival launched by the Tobago House of Assembly in 2022.
TOBE
TOBE is a Japanese entertainment agency founded by Hideaki Takizawa in March 2023, best known as the home of the J-pop idol groups Number_i and IMP.
Tobe Hooper
Tobe Hooper (1943-2017), American horror director from Austin, Texas, directed The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Poltergeist (1982), and the Salem's Lot miniseries (1979), and shaped the slasher genre.
Tobe Nwigwe
Tobe Nwigwe is a Houston-based rapper, singer, and actor, born Tobechukwu-dubem-nwigwe in 1987. He is known for his weekly music habit and earning a Best New Artist Grammy nomination.
Tobey (song)
"Tobey" is a 2024 single by Eminem featuring Michigan rappers Big Sean and BabyTron, the second single from The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), released July 2, 2024, referencing Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man, debuting at number 95 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Tobey Maguire
Tobey Maguire (Tobias Vincent Maguire, born 1975, Santa Monica) is the American actor who played Peter Parker in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007), later starring in Seabiscuit, Brothers, and The Great Gatsby and producing through Material Pictures.
Tobi Bakare
Tobi Bakare is the name of two actors: a British actor (born 1989) known for J.P. Hooper in Death in Paradise and the Kingsman films, and Nigerian actor Tobi Bakre (born 1994), the Big Brother Naija alumnus and AMVCA-winning star of Brotherhood and Gangs of Lagos.
Tobi Neumann
Tobi Neumann, born Tobias Neumann in 1965, is a German house and techno DJ and producer based in Berlin, known for Flokati and producing Chicks on Speed.
Tobi Vail
Tobi Vail, American musician from Olympia, Washington, founding drummer of Bikini Kill and riot grrrl pioneer; publisher of the fanzine Jigsaw, member of the Go Team and the Frumpies, and Kill Rock Stars staff member.
Tobias Beecher
Tobias Beecher is the protagonist inmate of HBO's prison drama Oz (1997–2003), played by Lee Tergesen; prisoner 97B412, a Harvard-trained lawyer convicted of drunk-driving manslaughter, later seen in the 2026 short film ZO.
Tobias Forge
Tobias Forge is the Swedish singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who founded the band Ghost in 2006. He performs as masked personas, including Papa Emeritus and Papa V Perpetua.
Tobias Frere-Jones
Tobias Frere-Jones (born 1970) is an American typeface designer in New York, known for widely used typefaces including Interstate, Gotham, Whitney, and Retina, and founder of Frere-Jones Type.
Tobias Menzies
Tobias Menzies (born 1974) is an English actor known for Brutus in Rome, Frank and Black Jack Randall in Outlander, Edmure Tully in Game of Thrones, and Emmy-winning Prince Philip in The Crown seasons 3-4.
Tobias Rahim
Tobias Rahim (Tobias Rahim Secilmis Hasling, born 1989), also Toby Tabu or Grande, is a Danish-Kurdish pop singer and poet from Aarhus. His single "Stor mand" holds the longest Danish #1 run, 17 weeks, and his 2022 album was Denmark's most streamed.
Tobias Smollett
Tobias Smollett (1721–1771) was a Scottish novelist, surgeon, and editor best known for Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, and Humphry Clinker, published in the year of his death.
Tobias Whale
Tobias Whale, the Great White Whale, is a DC Comics albino African-American crime boss and leader of the 100, archenemy of Black Lightning; created by Tony Isabella and Trevor von Eeden, debuting in Black Lightning #1 (April 1977), and played by Marvin "Krondon" Jones III on The CW series (2018-2021).
Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff (born 1945, Birmingham, Alabama) is an American short-story writer, memoirist, and novelist, author of This Boy's Life, In Pharaoh's Army, The Barracks Thief (PEN/Faulkner), and Old School; Stanford professor, National Medal of Arts 2015. Not the philosopher Christian Wolff or economist Richard Wolff.
Tobin Bell
Tobin Bell (born 1942) is an American character actor, born in Queens and raised in Weymouth, Massachusetts, best known as John Kramer/Jigsaw in the Saw franchise since 2004, with supporting roles in Mississippi Burning, Goodfellas, and The Firm.
Toblerone
Toblerone is a triangular Swiss chocolate bar with honey-almond nougat, invented in 1908 in Bern by Theodor Tobler and Emil Baumann; the name joins Tobler and torrone. Owned by Mondelez since 1990, made mainly in Bern, exported to 120 countries.
Toby Anstis
Toby Anstis, English radio and TV presenter and DJ; CBBC Broom Cupboard presenter, Heart mid-morning host from 2001, and 2019 launch presenter of Heart Dance Breakfast.
Toby Aromolaran
Toby Aromolaran, also known as Tobias Ademide Aromolaran, is an English television personality and semi-professional footballer. He was a runner-up on Love Island series 7 in 2021.