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toss | tossable |

As a noun toss

is a throw, a lob, of a ball etc, with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.

As a verb toss

is to throw with an initial upward direction.

As an adjective tossable is

suitable for being tossed or thrown.

toss

English

Noun

(es)
  • A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.
  • (cricket, football) The toss of a coin before a cricket match in order to decide who bats first, or before a football match in order to decide the direction of play.
  • (British, slang) A jot, in the phrase 'give a toss'.
    • I couldn't give a toss about her.

    Derived terms

    * argue the toss

    Verb

  • To throw with an initial upward direction.
    • Toss it over here!
  • To lift with a sudden or violent motion.
    • to toss the head
  • * Addison
    • He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me, / He would not stay.
  • To agitate; to make restless.
  • * Milton
    • Calm region once, / And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.
  • To subject to trials; to harass.
  • * Herbert
    • Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men.
  • To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.
    • I'll toss you for it.
  • To discard: to toss out
    • ''I don't need it anymore, you can just toss it.
  • To stir or mix (a salad).
    • to toss''' a salad; a '''tossed salad.
  • (British, vulgar, slang) To masturbate
  • (informal) To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables or evidence of a crime.
    • "Someone tossed just his living room and bedroom." / "They probably found what they were looking for."
  • * 2003 , Joseph Wambaugh, Fire Lover , p. 258:
    • John Orr had occasion to complain in writing to the senior supervisor that his Playboy and Penthouse magazines had been stolen by deputies. And he believed that was what prompted a random search of his cell for contraband. He was stripped, handcuffed, and forced to watch as they tossed his cell .
  • * 2009 , , Red Dragon :
    • Rankin and Willingham, when they tossed his cell , they took Polaroids so they could get everything back in place.
  • * 2011 , Linda Howard, Kill and Tell: A Novel :
    • Hayes had watched him toss a room before. He had tapped walls, gotten down on his hands and knees and studied the floor, inspected books and lamps and bric-abrac.
  • To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.
    • tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep
  • To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) To keep in play; to tumble over.
    • to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar
    (Ascham)
  • To peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat.

    • See also

    * tosser * toss off * toss in * toss and turn

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    tossable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Suitable for being tossed or thrown.
  • * 2001 , Instructor (volume 111)
    • For Toss It, I use a ball that looks like a globe, but any soft tossable item will work.
  • Suitable for throwing away; disposable.
  • * 2004 , William C. Banfield, Black notes: essays of a musician writing in a post-album age
    • CDs seem so tiny to me, so dispensable and exchangeable, so tossable and tradable, like a baseball card or something.
  • (automotive) Nimble, maneuverable, responding quickly to steering input.
  • * 2013 , Wall Street Journal, "Nissan Versa Note Isn't Worth the Cost at Any Price" (October 4, 2013)
    • But both those cars are nippy, fun, willing, cinched-down, pretty tossable little cars.

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