toss

[toss]

When you lightly throw something, you toss it. You might toss your lifejacket and backpack into a canoe before climbing in with the paddles.

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, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tossed ; (less properly Tost ); p. pr. & vb. n. Tossing.] [ W. tosiaw, tosio, to jerk, toss, snatch, tosa quick jerk, a toss, a snatch. ] 1.

Noun
(sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team; "the pass was fumbled"

Noun
an abrupt movement; "a toss of his head"

Noun
the act of flipping a coin

Verb
agitate; "toss the salad"

Verb
throw or toss with a light motion; "flip me the beachball"; "toss me newspaper"

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Verb
throw carelessly; "chuck the ball"

Verb
move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"

Verb
lightly throw to see which side comes up; "I don''t know what to do--I may as well flip a coin!"

Verb
throw or cast away; "Put away your worries"

v. t.
To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.

v. t.
To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head.

v. t.
To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm.

v. t.
To agitate; to make restless.

v. t.
Hence, to try; to harass.

v. t.
To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar.

v. i.
To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to fling.

v. i.
To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean.

n.
A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as, the toss of a ball.

n.
A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk.

Toss

Toss , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tossed ; (less properly Tost ); p. pr. & vb. n. Tossing.] [ W. tosiaw, tosio, to jerk, toss, snatch, tosa quick jerk, a toss, a snatch. ] 1. To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball. 2. To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head.

He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me, He would not stay.

3. To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm.

We being exceedingly tossed with a tempeat.

4. To agitate; to make restless.

Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.

5. Hence, to try; to harass.

Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men.

6. To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar. [Obs.] Ascham. To toss off, to drink hastily. -- To toss the cars.See under Oar, n.

Toss

Toss, v. i. 1. To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to fling.

To toss and fling, and to be restless, only frets and enreges our pain.

2. To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean. Shak. To toss for, to throw dice or a coin to determine the possession of; to gamble for. -- To toss up, to throw a coin into the air, and wager on which side it will fall, or determine a question by its fall. Bramsion.

Toss

Toss, n. 1. A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as, the toss of a ball. 2. A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk. Swift.

, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tossed ; (less properly Tost ); p. pr. & vb. n. Tossing.] [ W. tosiaw, tosio, to jerk, toss, snatch, tosa quick jerk, a toss, a snatch. ] 1.

To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to fling.

A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as, the toss of a ball.

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Usage Examples

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

The TV business is like the produce section of the market. Today everything is fresh and glistening and firm. And tomorrow, when they find a bruise on you, they toss you out.

I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn't have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food.

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Other Usage Examples

Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.