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toque

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A Canadian English slang term. Browse all Canadian slang.

What it means

  1. A knitted winter hat. Called a beanie in the US and Australia and a woolly hat in Britain, but in Canada it is simply the word for the object.

In use

  • Grab a toque, it's minus twenty out there.

  • He wears that toque year-round.

Where it comes from

From Canadian French tuque, itself from an older French word for a brimless cap. One of the clearest cases of a French borrowing that English-speaking Canadians use without any sense of it being foreign.

Other forms

Spellings and variants:
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