toss

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  1. transitive verb To throw lightly or casually or with a sudden slight jerk: tossed the shirt on the floor. See Synonyms at throw.
  2. transitive verb To throw, fling, or heave continuously about; pitch to and fro: boats that were tossed by the storm.
  3. transitive verb To throw upward: The bull tossed him over the fence.
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  • The next toss is a tail -- you get really excited. —  Peter Donnelly shows how stats fool juries
  • These games include the hammer toss, the caber toss, the sheaf toss, the clachneart (stone of strength), and the throwing of 28 and —  The Daily Sentinel: News
  • That goal-line to goal-line toss was at the encouragement of Steve Korte, a very big offensive lineman, who had told his teammates that Taylor could do it and then told the quarterback he had better not fail. —  Arkansas News
  • Odd. Second and 8 shows how Westbrook really isn't himself; he gets a yard on a toss, and it's one more big damn down. —  Five Tool Tool - The Sports Blog That Loves You Back
  • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - New Zealand's decision to bowl first after winning the toss was vindicated when it held India to 375-9 on the first day of the third cricket test.
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

shrug ·  shake ·  jerk ·  throw ·  twitch ·  grimace ·  shove ·  heave ·  snort ·  slap ·  kick ·  chuckle

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toss:   tosses ·  tossed ·  tossing
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English tossen, possibly of Scandinavian origin.

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  1. Early modern English tosse; from late Middle English tossen; origin unknown: (a) prob. from Norse tossa, strew, scatter; (b) otherwise from Dutch tassen, from French tasser, heap up, as the waves of a troubled sea (from tas, a heap (see tass); for the variation of form, cf. tassel, tossel). The W. tosio, jerk, toss (from tos, a quick jerk, a toss), is not supported by cognate Celtic forms, and is prob. from English
  2. from Middle English toss (rare); from toss, v.
 

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