toss
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
broadcasting
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
media
rowing
soccer
sports
Etymology: From Middle English tossen (“to buffet about, agitate, toss; to sift or winnow”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old Norse (compare dialectal Norwegian tossa, dialectal Swedish tossa (“to strew, spread”)), or perhaps from an alteration of Middle English tosen (“to tease, pull apart, shred; to wound, injure”). Compare also Dutch tassen (“to pile or heap up, stack”).
The Welsh tos (“a quick jerk”) and tosio (“to jerk, toss”) are probably borrowed from the English.
Inflected forms:
form: tosses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tosses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tossing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tossed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tossed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tost
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
form: tost
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
past
Senses:
gloss: A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A haughty throwing up of the head.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Concern or consideration.
pos: noun
tags: British
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: I don't give a toss about her.
gloss: A state of agitation; commotion.
pos: noun
tags: British
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: This put us at the board into a Tosse.
"We are all in a toss, in our neighborhood," said Mistress Pottle.
gloss: A measure of sprats.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A handover from one presenter to another, announced by the first presenter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Nonsense; drivel.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
uncountable
examples: Then I look again at this message. What a load of toss.
'You were,' John said, with infinite love, 'talking such absolute toss.'
I always thought that the breathing thing was a load of toss, but it helped calm me big time.
gloss: An act of masturbation.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
vulgar
examples: And Uncle Frank is having a wank, And Auntie Floss is having a toss, With Grandad.
This girl was a wank, a toss, something to be used over and over again, even when she was a pensioner; the pictures would be around till the next millennium.
Men don't chat about having a toss. We just don't. It's not comfortable.
gloss: To throw with an initial upward direction.
pos: verb
examples: Toss it over here!
gloss: To lift with a sudden or violent motion.
pos: verb
examples: to toss the head
He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me,
 He would not stay.
"Over the bender," said Wisp, with a laugh, tossing his thumb over his left shoulder as he spoke.
gloss: To agitate; to make restless.
pos: verb
examples: Calm region once,
 And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.
gloss: To subject to trials; to harass.
pos: verb
examples: Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men.
gloss: To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.
pos: verb
examples: We should toss for it.
I'll toss you for it.
gloss: To discard; to throw away.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: I don't need it any more; you can just toss it.
gloss: To stir or mix (a salad).
pos: verb
examples: to toss a salad; a tossed salad.
gloss: To masturbate.
pos: verb
tags: UK
slang
gloss: To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables or evidence of a crime.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: 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.
Rankin and Willingham, when they tossed his cell, they took Polaroids so they could get everything back in place.
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.
gloss: To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep
“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.
Senseless tossing about at night before sleep comes on is often obviated by a healthful fatigue from a pleasant occupation, provided the fatigue is not sufficient to shatter the nerves. Simple measures, such as “counting sheep,” is a gentle soporific, and may be amplified by the more scholarly, as Kant did, who would think of a word such as “Cicero,” and delve into all the ramifications the thought suggested, until his mental faculties were gradually enmeshed in the veil of sleep.
gloss: To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean, or as a ship in heavy seas.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Even now did the sea toss up upon our shore
gloss: To keep in play; to tumble over.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: spend four or fiue yeares, in tossing all the rules of Grammer in common scholes
gloss: To peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat.
pos: verb
gloss: To drink in large draughts; to gulp.
pos: verb
tags: UK
slang
examples: 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,
Why, forſooth, an you think ſo, you had beſt go to bed. For my part, I mean to toſs a Can, and remember my Sweet-Heart, afore I turn in; may-hap I may dream of her.
gloss: To vomit.
pos: verb
tags: slang
usually
Derived words: argue the toss
basket toss
chuck and toss
full toss
give a toss
go for a toss
on the toss of a coin
pitch and toss
ring toss
send for a toss
toss bombing
toss job
toss juggling
toss of the coin
toss pillow
toss-up
mistoss
betoss
betossed
foretossed
retoss
stormtossed
tossable
toss a bone to
toss a coin
toss and turn
toss around
toss away
toss caution to the wind
toss down
tosser
toss in
tossingly
toss in with
toss it in
tossment
toss off
toss one's cookies
toss one's hat in the ring
toss one's hat into the ring
toss one's name in the hat
tosspiece
tosspot
toss salad
toss someone a bone
toss someone's salad
toss the pieman
toss together
toss to the lions
toss to the wind
toss up
tossy
tosticated
untossed
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