(verb, adjective, adverb, noun, etc. etc.)

1. Salutations of some sort; also farewell - "Totes!;" "Stay totes!"

2. Action word (verb) in ambiguous context - "Totes it up!"; "Let's totes this place!"

3. Original connotation: totally - "That girl is totes hot,"; "You're totes sketch."

4. Any positive association - "Getting into college is totes!"; "Yeah, Glee is pretty much the totes!"

5. A method with which to puncture silences, esp. those of the awkward variety - "...Totes."

A shorter more convenient form of the word: totally. This word is most commonly used by teenage girls.

The most obvious advantage of using this word is the time saved. Data collected at a prestigious university found that every syllable spoken takes approximately 0.14 seconds.

The same prestigious university also found that the average valley girl says the word totally around 190 times a day.

If you do the math, the average time saved by using the word totes as opposed to totally would save 26.6 seconds a day! Over the course of a year that adds up to 2.7 hours!!

A fucking lame way to say "totally"

How to say Totally in retard

Short for "totally"

Totes, pronounced like boats with a "t," is a shortened form of the word totally.

Abbreviated version of "totally." All words that "totes" modifies should be abbreviated if at all possible; some exceptions apply.

Original usage is "totes obvi" and should never be used by people who actually use "obvi" in conversation.