When you lightly throw something, you toss it. You might toss your lifejacket and backpack into a canoe before climbing in with the paddles.
, v. t.
Noun
(sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team; "the pass was fumbled"
Noun
an abrupt movement; "a toss of his head"
Noun
the act of flipping a coin
Verb
agitate; "toss the salad"
Verb
throw or toss with a light motion; "flip me the beachball"; "toss me newspaper"
Verb
throw carelessly; "chuck the ball"
Verb
move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"
Verb
lightly throw to see which side comes up; "I don''t know what to do--I may as well flip a coin!"
Verb
throw or cast away; "Put away your worries"
v. t.
To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm
of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.
v. t.
To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as,
to toss the head.
v. t.
To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves
in a storm.
v. t.
To agitate; to make restless.
v. t.
Hence, to try; to harass.
v. t.
To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years
in tossing the rules of grammar.
v. i.
To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write;
to fling.
v. i.
To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean.
n.
A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as,
the toss of a ball.
n.
A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the
head with a jerk.
Toss
He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me, He would not stay.3.
We being exceedingly tossed with a tempeat.4.
Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.5.
Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men.6.
Toss
To toss and fling, and to be restless, only frets and enreges our pain.2.
Toss
, v. t.
To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to fling.
A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing;
Usage Examples
Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.
The TV business is like the produce section of the market. Today everything is fresh and glistening and firm. And tomorrow, when they find a bruise on you, they toss you out.
I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn't have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food.
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Other Usage ExamplesMarriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?
It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.