Toss meaning
The definition of a toss is a throw or fling of something, or a flip of a coin.
An example of a toss is a throw of a baseball glove onto the stoop.
An example of a toss is a flip of coin to decide which team goes first.
noun
Toss is defined as to throw lightly, or to mix together ingredients to cover them with salad dressing or a sauce.
An example of to toss is to gently throw a ball onto the grass.
An example of to toss is to mix together salad greens and a dressing.
verb
To throw lightly or casually or with a sudden jerk.
Tossed the shirt on the floor.
verb
To mix (food) lightly so as to cover with dressing or sauce.
Toss a salad.
verb
To discuss informally; bandy.
Tossed the idea around.
verb
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To be thrown here and there; be flung to and fro or up and down.
The canoe tossed about on the waves.
verb
To move about restlessly; twist and turn.
Toss in one's sleep.
verb
To flip a coin to decide an issue.
verb
An abrupt upward movement, as of the head.
noun
A flipping of a coin to decide an issue.
The home team won the toss and elected to receive.
noun
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To throw or pitch about; fling here and there; buffet.
A boat tossed by a storm.
verb
To mix lightly the parts or ingredients of (esp. a salad)
verb
To disturb; agitate; disquiet.
verb
To throw (in various senses); specif., to throw upward, lightly and easily, from the hand.
verb
To throw in or bandy (ideas, remarks, etc.)
verb
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To lift quickly; jerk upward.
Tossing her head in disdain.
verb
To toss a coin with (someone) for deciding something according to which side will land uppermost.
verb
To get rid of; throw away; discard.
verb
To be flung to and fro; be thrown about or pitched about.
verb
To fling oneself about in sleep, etc.; be restless in bed.
verb
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To move or go impatiently, angrily, or disdainfully, as with a toss of the head.
verb
To toss a coin, as in letting chance decide something.
verb
A tossing or being tossed; a throw, fling, pitch, etc.
noun
The distance that something is or can be tossed.
noun
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(cricket, soccer) 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.
noun
To throw with an initial upward direction.
Toss it over here!
verb
To lift with a sudden or violent motion.
To toss the head.
verb
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To agitate; to make restless.
verb
To subject to trials; to harass.
verb
To discard: to toss out.
I don't need it anymore, you can just toss it.
verb
(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."
verb
(intransitive) To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.
Tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep.
verb
(intransitive) To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean.
verb
toss (one's) cookies
- To vomit.
idiom
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toss off
- To make, do, write, etc. quickly, casually, and without effort.
- To drink up in one draft.
- To masturbate.
idiom
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of toss
- Middle English tossen possibly of Scandinavian origin
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition