▪ I. toc
(tɒk)
Also tock.
Used for t in telecommunication codes and in the oral transliteration of coded messages. Cf. toc emma, Toc H.
| 1898 [see ack]. 1913 [see pip n.4]. 1944 K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) xvii. 100 This means they are hopelessly broken down and want the technical adjutant, known officially over the wireless as ‘Tock Ack’, to arrange their recovery. |
▪ II. toc
obs. f. took, pa. tense of take v.