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toss

UK /tɒs/US /tɔs/

verb 15
noun 9
forms 8
phrases 11

verb15

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to throw something so that it goes up into the air
- Toss it over here!
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(informal) To discard; to throw away.
- I don't need it any more; you can just toss it.
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To agitate; to make restless.
- Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent. — 1667
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To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.
- “We can’t stand this, you know,” the young Englishmen said to each other; and they tossed about all night more boisterously than they had tossed upon the Atlantic billows. — 1878
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To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean, or as a ship in heavy seas.
- Even now did the sea toss up upon our shore — 1607
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To stir or mix (a salad).
- to toss a salad; a tossed salad.
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To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.
- We should toss for it.
- I'll toss you for it.
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To lift with a sudden or violent motion.
- He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me, He would not stay. — 1712
To peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat.
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(informal) To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables or evidence of a crime.
- Rankin and Willingham, when they tossed his cell, they took Polaroids so they could get everything back in place. — 2009
(UK, slang) To masturbate.
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To subject to trials; to harass.
- Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men. — 1633
(slang) To vomit.
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(UK, slang) To drink in large draughts; to gulp.
- Their modest stole, to garish looser weed, Deck'd with love-favours their late whoredoms' meed: And where they wont sip of the simple flood, Now toss they bowls of Bacchus' boiling blood, — 1597
(no longer used) To keep in play; to tumble over.

noun9

A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.
The coin toss before a cricket match in order to decide who bats first, or before a football match in order to decide the direction of play.
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(UK, slang) Concern or consideration.
- I don't give a toss about her.
A haughty throwing up of the head.
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(UK, slang) Nonsense; drivel.
- Then I look again at this message. What a load of toss. — 2012
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A handover from one presenter to another, announced by the first presenter.
- The introduction would still be done by the Monitor host in New York's Studio 5B, followed by the toss to the newsperson in Washington. — 2003
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(UK, vulgar) An act of masturbation.
- And Uncle Frank is having a wank, And Auntie Floss is having a toss, With Grandad. — 1983
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(UK, slang) A state of agitation; commotion.
- This put us at the board into a Tosse. — 1666
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A measure of sprats.
- It will differ from the heaped measure of oysters, improperly called the peck, by about one-seventh part in excess, and from the toss of sprats by about one-third part in excess. — 1834

forms

toss'd · tossed · tost · ytost · tossing · tosses · tosseth · tossest

Phrases with toss

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