toss
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Is toss a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (cricket, soccer) 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.countableuncountable
2. (British slang, chiefly in the negative) Concern or consideration.Examples: "I don't give a toss about her."Britishcountableslanguncountable
3. (British slang) A state of agitation; commotion.Examples: "This put us at the board into a Tosse."; ""We are all in a toss, in our neighborhood," said Mistress Pottle."Britishcountableslanguncountable
4. (Billingsgate Fish Market slang) A measure of sprats.Examples: "It will differ from the heaped measure of oysters, improperly called the peck, by about one-seventh part in excess, and from the toss of sprats by about one-third part in excess."countableuncountable
5. (broadcasting) A handover from one presenter to another, announced by the first presenter.Examples: "The introduction would still be done by the Monitor host in New York's Studio 5B, followed by the toss to the newsperson in Washington."countableuncountable
6. (UK, slang, uncountable) Nonsense; drivel.Examples: "Then I look again at this message. What a load of toss."; "'You were,' John said, with infinite love, 'talking such absolute toss.'"; "I always thought that the breathing thing was a load of toss, but it helped calm me big time."UKslanguncountable
verb (English)
1. (informal, transitive) To discard; to throw away.Examples: "I don't need it any more; you can just toss it."Synonyms: toss out, throw outinformaltransitive
2. (UK, slang) To masturbate.Synonyms: wank, bash one out, bate, beat it, beat off, crank one out, fap, frigUKslang
3. (transitive, informal) To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables or evidence of a crime.Examples: "John Orr had occasion to complain in writing to the senior supervisor that his Playboy and Penthouse magazines had been stolen by deputies. And he believed that was what prompted a random search of his cell for contraband. He was stripped, handcuffed, and forced to watch as they tossed his cell."; "Rankin and Willingham, when they tossed his cell, they took Polaroids so they could get everything back in place."; "Hayes had watched him toss a room before. He had tapped walls, gotten down on his hands and knees and studied the floor, inspected books and lamps and bric-abrac."informaltransitive
4. (intransitive) To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.Examples: "tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep"; "“We can’t stand this, you know,” the young Englishmen said to each other; and they tossed about all night more boisterously than they had tossed upon the Atlantic billows."; "Senseless tossing about at night before sleep comes on is often obviated by a healthful fatigue from a pleasant occupation, provided the fatigue is not sufficient to shatter the nerves. Simple measures, such as “counting sheep,” is a gentle soporific, and may be amplified by the more scholarly, as Kant did, who would think of a word such as “Cicero,” and delve into all the ramifications the thought suggested, until his mental faculties were gradually enmeshed in the veil of sleep."Synonyms: welterintransitive
5. (intransitive) To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean, or as a ship in heavy seas.Examples: "Even now did the sea toss up upon our shore"Synonyms: bucket about, uptossintransitive
6. (obsolete) To keep in play; to tumble over.Examples: "spend four or fiue yeares, in tossing all the rules of Grammer in common scholes"obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary