Toast refers to several things:
- Toast is bread that has been browned by exposure to dry heat.
- A toast is a shared drink in honor of someone or something.
- Toast, North Carolina is a place in the United States.
- Toast is the name of a popular compact disc recording software for the Apple Macintosh, originally developed by Adaptec.
- Toast is the name of a free software implementation of the GSM Full Rate audio codec, produced by Jutta Degener and Carsten Bormann, available here.
- French toast is not toast in the usual sense, but is bread fried with an egg-mixture coating.
- Melba toast is a very dry, crisp, thinly sliced toast.
- A toasted sandwich is a sandwich that has been toasted.
- A toaster is a machine for toasting food such as sliced bread and bagels.
- Toasting, chatting, or MCing (emceeing) is the act of talking or chanting over a rhythm or beat.
- As slang, toast describes something that has been "done-in", particularly a damaged electronic device. This may have derived from the fact that a power surge can blow out components, leaving them brown and "crispy" like burnt toast.