What is the meaning of TONIC. Phrases containing TONIC
See meanings and uses of TONIC!Slangs & AI meanings
Noun. Nonsense, rubbish. Verb. To take orally, to imbibe. E.g."She boshed 7 pills, a handful of mushrooms and 8 vodka and tonics in the first hour, and then not surprisingly she threw up." [London use]
n beer with high-alcohol content: Give me a gin and tonic and a pint of wife beater. Brits do not use the American definition of the term (a ribbed, sleeveless undershirt).
Colonic is British slang for a drink of coca−cola and tonic.
Tonic. How about a nice Vera and super (Gin & Tonic)
Orange juice
Gin. I'll have a small needle and tonic.
Phrs. Drunk, very intoxicated. E.g."She was three sheets to the wind and still downing gin and tonics quicker than they could pour them."
Philharmonic. I'll have a Vera and Phil (gin and tonic).
V.A.T. is British slang for vodka and tonic.
Noun. 1. A man. E.g."This chap came up to me and told me to shut my mouth." {Informal} 2. A form of address. Usually associated with the speech of the upper classes. E.g."I say old chap, fancy joining us for a gin and tonic?" {Informal}
Orange juice
Philharmonic is London Cockney rhyming slang for tonic water.
TONIC
TONIC
TONIC
TONIC
TONIC
TONIC
TONIC
n.
Tonicity; as, arterial tone.
n.
A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.
n.
Tonicity, or tone; as, muscular tonus.
a.
Producing, or tending to produce, tetanus, or tonic contraction of the muscles; as, a tetanic remedy. See Tetanic, n.
n.
A glucoside extracted from the root of a South African plant of the genus Vernonia, as a deliquescent powder, and used as a mild heart tonic.
n.
A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic; -- distinguished from a subvocal, and a nonvocal.
n.
The state of healthy tension or partial contraction of muscle fibers while at rest; tone; tonus.
a.
Increasing strength, or the tone of the animal system; obviating the effects of debility, and restoring healthy functions.
n.
The principle of key in music; the character which a composition has by virtue of the key in which it is written, or through the family relationship of all its tones and chords to the keynote, or tonic, of the whole.
a.
Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, such sounds, namely, the vowels and diphthongs, being so called by Dr. James Rush (1833) " from their forming the purest and most plastic material of intonation."
n.
A genus of shrubby ranunculaceous plants of North America, including only the species Xanthorhiza apiifolia, which has roots of a deep yellow color; yellowroot. The bark is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used as a tonic.
n.
The key tone, or first tone of any scale.
n.
A composite plant (Artemisia Absinthium), having a bitter and slightly aromatic taste, formerly used as a tonic and a vermifuge, and to protect woolen garments from moths. It gives the peculiar flavor to the cordial called absinthe. The volatile oil is a narcotic poison. The term is often extended to other species of the same genus.
a.
Tonic.
n.
A medicine that increases the strength, and gives vigor of action to the system.
n.
The seventh tone of the scale, or that immediately below the tonic; -- called also subsemitone.
n.
A strengthening medicine; a tonic.
n.
A European yellow-flowered, gentianaceous (Chlora perfoliata). The whole plant is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used as a tonic, and also in dyeing yellow.
a.
Of or pertaining to tension; increasing tension; hence, increasing strength; as, tonic power.
TONIC
TONIC
TONIC