Tone Crime

Otherwise gender compliant utterances delivered with irony or insufficient gravitas

" He used my preferred pronoun but I know he didn’t mean it. It was just his tone, you know? I feel so invalidated. The new official "Campus Gender Inclusivity - Safe Space for All. Your truth is our truth" guidelines clearly prohibit him from committing a "Tone Crime" against me"

by The Regal Hyena January 31, 2020

tone police

tone police is identified when a person preferably a male with a large structure tries to intimidate a person or group of people with his/her large biceps into order to take control of a situation.

marshi "look at fogz, tone police trying to intimidate us to back off while he bets large on his hand at poker"

by Tomito March 5, 2009

toning it down

To becoming completely relaxed with somebody sexually; make love.

Are you toning it down with her tonight?

by realizt November 6, 2017

tone-deaf

lacking in one's appreciation of music (not necessarily due to actually being tone deaf

I'm sorry but i just never payed much attention to music. I'm tone-deaf.

by The Return of Light Joker October 6, 2011

N tone

Another word for an african american.

"yooo what up my n tone"

by Tony N September 3, 2007

Tone Loc

although originaly this is the name of a rapper from the 80's it is now a term exclamated when you overhear someone get "burrned" or insulted.

"hey, you stole my wrist watch!"
"i already have a wrist watch"
"well i saw you lookin at it"
"jo mamma you did!"
(bystander) "OHHH TONE LOC"

by Ken January 23, 2005

text tone

text tone: to have a loud tones in ones text.

jonathon: so what homework we working on tommorow?
harmony: how do i know what homework there gonna give us tommorow?
jonathon: watch your text tone!

by Fergie The God! March 27, 2009