Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. idiomatic, intransitive To make a decision based on chance, for example by flipping a coin or rolling a dice.
- v. intransitive To throw something upwards.
- v. idiomatic, transitive To produce, generate.
- v. idiomatic, transitive To cook something quickly.
- v. idiomatic, transitive To casually mention as an idea
Examples
“– Now though as easy a man you would think as any in the wide world, there was no such thing as making him unsay one of these sort of vows,12 which he had learned to reverence when young, as I well remember teaching him to toss up for bog berries on my knee.”
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Toss up
toss up, even, tied, neck and neck, deadlock, parity, fifty-fifty, equilibrium, balance, equal, fungible, across-the-board and 16 more...
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Gil Blas
Interesting words and usages from Smollett's 1749 translation of Lesage's L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
reck, durance, rhodomontade, hangdog, trap, lustre, pin, boggle, dandle, birthday suit, colic, gripes and 238 more...
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yarb It is a toss up who fails and who succeeds: the wit of to-day is the blockhead of to-morrow.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 11 ch. 7 Oct 10, 2008