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toss🔊

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

(football) 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.

A haughty throwing up of the head.

(in the negative) Concern or consideration.

(British slang) A state of agitation; commotion.

(slang) A measure of sprats.

To throw with an initial upward direction.

📑 Synonyms: chuck fling Thesaurus:throw

To lift with a sudden or violent motion.

To agitate; to make restless.

📑 Synonyms: perturb provoke vex

To subject to trials; to harass.

📑 Synonyms: beleaguer beset pester

To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.

(to discard, throw away) To discard; to throw away.

To stir or mix (a salad).

(slang) To masturbate.(Masturbation)

📑 Synonyms: wank Thesaurus:masturbate

(informal) To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables or evidence of a crime.

To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.

📑 Synonyms: welter

To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean, or as a ship in heavy seas.

📑 Synonyms: bucket about uptoss

(obsolete) To keep in play; to tumble over.

(rowing) To peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat.

(slang) To drink in large draughts; to gulp.

📑 Synonyms: chug guzzle Thesaurus:drink

(usually as "toss one's cookies") To vomit.