toads

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of toad.

   The pond filled with toads in the days after heavy rain.

   Gardeners welcome toads because they eat slugs and insects.

   Note

   A regular plural that adds only -s, and it serves every noun meaning at once: the warty, short-legged amphibians of pond and garden, and the derogatory word for contemptible or ugly people. The same spelling is also the present-tense verb meaning to delete a user, so only the sentence shows whether toads are creatures or an action.

2. 2
   verbcolloquial

   Third-person singular simple present of toad.

   The head wizard toads any player caught harassing newcomers, deleting the account outright.

   When someone floods the MUD with bot traffic, the admin simply toads the offender and moves on.

   Note

   The singular-subject present (the wizard toads a troublemaker) of a verb from MUDs and similar online systems. It is informal and transitive, so the expelled user always follows as the object. It means permanent removal with the account deleted, not a temporary ban. Its spelling also matches the plural noun.

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