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toss

  [taws, tos] ,verb, tossed or (Literary) tost; toss⋅ing; noun
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–verb (used with object)
1. to throw, pitch, or fling, esp. to throw lightly or carelessly: to toss a piece of paper into the wastebasket.
2. to throw or send from one to another, as in play: to toss a ball.
3. to throw or pitch with irregular or careless motions; fling or jerk about: The ship was tossed by waves.
4. to agitate, disturb, or disquiet.
5. to throw, raise, or jerk upward suddenly: She tossed her head disdainfully.
6. to speak or express in a sudden offhand manner; interject: He tossed jokes into their serious discussion.
7. to throw (a coin) into the air in order to decide something by the side turned up when it falls (sometimes fol. 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)
10. to pitch, rock, sway, or move irregularly, as a ship on a rough sea or a flag or plumes in the breeze.
11. to fling or jerk oneself or move restlessly about, esp. on a bed or couch: to toss in one's sleep.
12. to throw something.
13. to throw a coin into the air in order to decide something by the way it falls (sometimes fol. by up).
14. to go with a fling of the body: to toss out of a room in a fit of anger.
–noun
15. an act or instance of tossing.
16. a pitching about or up and down.
17. a throw or pitch.
18. tossup (def. 1).
19. the distance to which something is or may be thrown.
20. a sudden fling or jerk of the body, esp. a quick upward or backward movement of the head.
—Verb phrases
21. toss off,
a. to accomplish quickly or easily.
b. to consume rapidly, esp. to drink something up in one swallow: He tossed off a cocktail before dinner.
c. British Slang. to masturbate.
22. toss up, Informal. to vomit.
—Idiom
23. toss one's cookies, Slang. cookie (def. 6).
Origin:
1595–1605; orig. uncert.

Related forms:
tosser, noun
toss⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. See throw.
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toss (sth)

  1. tv.
    to do something quickly without much time or effort. : It was no big deal. I tossed it off in thirty minutes.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

toss  (v.)
1506, possibly from a Scand. source (cf. dialectal Norw. tossa "to strew, spread"). Food preparation sense (with ref. to salad, etc.) is recorded from 1723. The noun meaning "an act of throwing" is first recorded 1660. Tosspot "heavy drinker" is from 1568. Toss-up "even matter" first recorded 1809, from earlier sense of "a flipping of a coin to arrive at a decision" (c.1700). Tosser as a term of contempt in British slang is recorded from 1977, probably from slang toss off "masturbate" (1969); cf. jerk (n.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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