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TOS¹

  • /tiː əʊ ɛs/
  • /tɔs/

noun TOSs

  1. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of terms of service
  2. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of thoracic outlet syndrome

verb TOSes · TOSing · TOSed · TOS'd

  1. Internet, dated, transitive To report another user for a real or imagined terms of service violation. If you want to join this riot, we urge you to! You wont have to worry about being TOSed or reported because there will be no Guides online! So do whatever you want—punt, scroll, tos, just turn AOL into a war zone!

adjective

  1. Internet, not comparable Against terms of service; likely to trigger a suspension or ban. When the bot selected “sex doll” as the winner an image of the product it chose came up when Toast instantly shouted, “Oh My God, that’s TOS.”

phrase

  1. Commonwealth, abbreviation, historical, initialism Initialism of taken on strength

    Opposite: SOS

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism, retronym, slang Initialism of the old series or the original series Star Trek: TOS; Battlestar Galactica: TOS

TOs²

noun

  1. plural plural of TO

ToS³

noun

  1. Alternative letter-case form of TOS (“terms of service”). Clearly, from Facebook’s ToS, neither sexting nor bullying will be tolerated on their network.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: square-toed, pointed-toe, pointy-toed, squared-toe, eap, pae, efp, css, tcs, team, mou, eip, cough, poi, coughs, eaps

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Chicago

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@misc{tos_2026,
  title = {TOS},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tos},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}