noun
- An implement used in the practice of a vocation.
- The means whereby some act is accomplished.
- usage: "my greed was the instrument of my destruction"; "science has given us new tools to fight disease"
- synonyms: instrument
- A person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else.
- Obscene terms for penis.
verb
- Drive.
- usage: "The convertible tooled down the street"
- Ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it.
- usage: "We tooled down the street"
- synonyms: joyride, tool around
- Furnish with tools.
- Work with a tool. .
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