toco for yam

== English == === Alternative forms === toko for yam === Etymology === See toco (“corporal punishment”); but the construction is uncertain and has been variously explained in slang dictionaries. It may have the sense of one thing given for another in retribution (like tit for tat), or may suggest a beating given instead of food (yam being food in West Indian pidgin). === Noun === toco for yam (uncountable) (UK, slang, obsolete) Retribution; punishment. ==== References ==== John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary