Overview of noun tool

The noun tool has 4 senses

• tool -- (an implement used in the practice of a vocation)


• instrument, tool -- (the means whereby some act is accomplished; "my greed was the instrument of my destruction"; "science has given us new tools to fight disease")


• creature, tool, puppet -- (a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else)


• cock, prick, dick, shaft, pecker, peter, tool, putz -- (obscene terms for penis)

Overview of verb tool

The verb tool has 4 senses

• tool -- (drive; "The convertible tooled down the street")


• joyride, tool, tool around -- (ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it; "We tooled down the street")


• tool -- (furnish with tools)


• tool -- (work with a tool)