When engaging a conversation with someone feeling a certain emotion and that person makes a statement which distracts you and contradicts your current mood.
"Hey man, crazy how my aunt just died..."
"Yeah, but dude call of duty black ops 3 was announced!"
"You just tone smacked me, don't do that!"
"Yeah, but dude call of duty black ops 3 was announced!"
"You just tone smacked me, don't do that!"
by UrbanVernacular October 28, 2015

A tone walker is someone who can change skin color or race as example, Ariana Grande is white, black and asian. You’re also transracial if you are a tone walker.
by Arianagrandeswetbussy June 16, 2022

by nickelbacktheGreat June 10, 2022

Someone telling someone else to tone it down usually has nothing to do with race, it's because the other person is full of shit.
He/she didn't like being told that he/she was full of shit even if the person that said tone it down had a point, and the one they said to tone it down to had no point, but still looked for anything he/she could to be argumentative over just to be argumentative, a stop sign being red not being good enough of an answer not to get argumentative about it without good reason, for example.
by The Original Agahnim August 2, 2021

A ring tone, typically used on a cell phone, that plays music, especially in the hip-hop, R&B, or rap genres.
Jeana was so embarrassed when she forgot to put her phone on vibrate and it started putting out a Snoop bling tone during her presentation.
by Ludwig77 August 14, 2011

by gingerbread cookies April 20, 2023

A whistle commonly used on and near Evergreen St. in Tucson. It’s used to signal if the police are present or on their way to a location, or, to signal other people that there is danger in that area. Or also used as a way of checking if an area is safe or not.
by anonymous March 25, 2021
