Definitions for toss

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toss toss

Spelling: [taws, tos]

IPA: /tɔs, tɒs/

Toss is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 18 anagrams from letters in toss (osst).

Definitions for toss

noun

1. an act or instance of tossing.
2. a pitching about or up and down.
3. a throw or pitch.
4. tossup (def 1).
5. the distance to which something is or may be thrown.
6. a sudden fling or jerk of the body, especially a quick upward or backward movement of the head.

Idioms

1. toss one's cookies, Slang. cookie (def 7).

Verb phrases

1. toss off, to accomplish quickly or easily. to consume rapidly, especially to drink something up in one swallow: British Slang. to masturbate.
2. toss up, Informal. to vomit.

verb (used with object)

1. to throw, pitch, or fling, especially to throw lightly or carelessly:
2. to throw or send from one to another, as in play:
3. to throw or pitch with irregular or careless motions; fling or jerk about:
4. to agitate, disturb, or disquiet.
5. to throw, raise, or jerk upward suddenly:
6. to speak or express in a sudden offhand manner; interject:
7. to throw (a coin) into the air in order to decide something by the side turned up when it falls (sometimes followed by up).
8. to toss a coin with (someone).
9. to stir or mix (a salad) lightly until the ingredients are coated with the dressing.

verb (used without object)

1. to pitch, rock, sway, or move irregularly, as a ship on a rough sea or a flag or plumes in the breeze.
2. to fling or jerk oneself or move restlessly about, especially on a bed or couch:
3. to throw something.
4. to throw a coin into the air in order to decide something by the way it falls (sometimes followed by up).
5. to go with a fling of the body:

Origin of toss

First recorded in 1595-1605; origin uncertain

Examples for toss

We lie, and toss, and turn; and say, When will the night be gone?

toss in Republican National Committee head Reince Priebus and his Democratic counterpart, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, too.

The strategy is always the same: toss irrelevant mud on the offending argument—“he got his picture from Cracked.com.”

It is a toss of the head and a droop of the eyes if I say one word of what is in my mind.

The toss of the antlers to meet the stroke drew the man up standing.

Perhaps, after all, I might have the brains to jest and toss about words and shoot off epigrams.

Add olive oil to the pan and toss in the garlic and chili flake.

Edwin was skilled to toss the dart; from his hand it flew unerring to its aim.

But when the children are from a foreign place and show up uninvited, we toss compassion and decency out the window?

toss the string beans and mesclun with enough dressing to moisten.