what's a "toad"

all these hunting and fishing guys call a big animal a "toad"


why? toads aren't big???

Yeah, they should say like "Wow, what an elephant!"

The same guys say things like:
I smoked him
I gave him a dirt nap
He was DRT

Toads are usually swole.

Why does it matter ?

Right. I have a landowner that refers to big hogs and bucks as toads, big fish as hogs, etc. I get the impression that 'toad' means well filled out, spread, or "swole."

It is just an idiom, sort of like big swords being called "pigs." Big swords in no way resemble pigs. Not all idioms are exact or directly representative.

It's a metaphor.

What about "running"? What scope you running brah? I'm running an Aimpoint on my AR brah. What you shooting? I'm running 77 grain Matchkings brah!

That one bugs the crap put of me.

it's bruh no brah

Worst one for me is "yote".

I guess its cuz I'm old and not hip...bra

Idioms are slang that I try never to use. Pronghorn antelope are not goats! (Almost never, but I have slipped not often but when it happens I feel a bit stupid.)

It's a new language called millennialeze. I don't get it either.

It's what you say after the toad truck guy gets through.

Let's go ahead and define it for all forum members so we have a standard going forward. That way we can poke fun at the guys that misuse it on non-toad worthy game.

Let's set the bar at 8.3 lbs or larger for bass, and net score of 152 B&C for white tail bucks.

but what if it's a small bodied hill country buck with a big rack is that still a toad?

It could be a 'qualified' toad. I.E. - "that be a toad of a buck for the hill country"

This is a toad. The Wolfhound X on that pig weighs almost 100 lbs.



TOAD.



Scaled close to 450 lbs, that's a toad.

Nother toad.

Big pig for sure Skinnerback. I'd say any hog north of 350 is Toad worthy.

Toad. I'm 235, pig was right at 300. Like toads....

Id say 250 bc 350 if a gargantuan

Toad.

More toads.

Or to you maybe a toad means this

To my Son, this was a toad.

4 toads.

Son's toad.

"TOAD" is a figure of speech, a metaphor nothing more. When my youngest Son caught his first fish I felt like I needed to grab a gaff by the way he was acting. This was his toad LOL....




Don't sweat the terminology folks, it's all about the memories.

Great memories right there Sir! Happy New Year!

Happy New Year my friend!

All these years I thought it meant "Toughest of all deers".

DANG IT.

Maybe "tenderist of all does"? Like, really good eating?

I dunno, just kinda spitballing here...

Whole load of toads !

It doesn't matter and shouldn't bother me but for some reason it irks me. "Smoked 'em" and "running XXX" are the ones the get me the most. Of course, I'm certain I say some things that others hate.

Pronghorn are neither Antelope or Goats. They are the last of their species and closest related to a Giraffe.

I thought it meant "pulling something" with your truck......

Correct. "Towed" = TOAD. RV'ers slang.

My daughters toad

I thought someone who got offended by others language was a liberal?
Oh yes I did!!

Every species is the last of their species, LOL. They are the last surviving member of their family, however.

For me, my pet irk is the calling of ground hogs "gophers." That are not gophers and are in a different family. Of course, ground hogs aren't even hogs at all which are in a different order.



Every generation has their trendie lingo that old timers find grody but that the generation thinks is wicked, fer sure.

Back in like the 80s, things were bangin' and boss. We'd get the 411 on some bomdigity hunt party and book over to see if it was fantabulous. Sometimes, it was my fave spot and legit. Sometimes it was a frickin' bust and mega uncool. Once in a while, we'd score a fugly hog. My best bro, Bob (a DINK), usually could not go because of his hoser wife. That was bogus. I kid you not. If he could get it penciled in, we would go out and peg some righteous hogs. Once, we got so many that our ride was a scoshe overloaded and one took a face plant and became road pizza on our way back to the house. Man, we were trippin'. Bob be like, "Where's the beef?" All I could say was, "Whoa!"

This celeb hunter was coming to town and Bob was stoked to the max. He tried to schmooze his way into going but everything he did was lame and he never got out the door. He was not rad and I told him to just chill.