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Tossed

Toss \Toss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tossed ; (less properly Tost ); p. pr. & vb. n. Tossing.] [ W. tosiaw, tosio, to jerk, toss, snatch, tosa quick jerk, a toss, a snatch. ]

  1. To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.

  2. To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head.

    He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me, He would not stay.
    --Addison.

  3. To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm.

    We being exceedingly tossed with a tempest.
    --Act xxvii. 18.

  4. To agitate; to make restless.

    Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.
    --Milton.

  5. Hence, to try; to harass.

    Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men.
    --Herbert.

  6. To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar. [Obs.] --Ascham. To toss off,

    1. to drink hastily.

    2. to accomplish easily or quickly.

    3. to say in an offhand manner; as, to toss off a comment.

    4. to masturbate; -- British slang.

      To toss the cars.See under Oar, n.

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tossed

vb. (en-past of: toss)

Wikipedia
Tossed (retail)

Tossed is a UK fast food chain based around salad, with 26 outlets in the UK, 13 of them in London.

Tossed opened their first branch in Sheldon Square in Paddington, London in 2005.

In March 2016, Tossed announced that they would become the first UK chain not to accept cash.

Usage examples of "tossed".

Sweeping a lace handkerchief from the lace-fringed sleeve of his yellow silk coat, he dabbed delicately at his face, then tossed it aside.

Niall was feeling quite good as he dismounted in the main courtyard of the Fortress of the Light and tossed his reins to a stableman.

Aiel Maidens of the Spear, leader of the Maidens this side of the Spine of the World, pulled a gold Tar Valon mark from her belt pouch, tossed it with a grimace that drew at the nasty scar on the side of her face.

Maidens merely stood calmly, but that name burst among the Andorans like a torch tossed in dry grass.

Leap into it too far, too fast, and you were a boy tossed naked into a pitched battle against armored foes.

They tossed me out on my ear three days later, and I left Shaemal as fast as I could reach a horse.

Sulin tossed a small knife into the dirt, seemingly amusing herself with a game of flip.

The Long Man, where a golden crown tossed to the round innkeeper produced an almost reverent curtsy and a small private dining room, dark-paneled, with heavily polished table and chairs and dried flowers in a blue vase on the hearth.

With a grin he stepped down and tossed the spearhead onto the chair seat.

Outside his apartments Nandera dismissed the Maidens except for Jalani, and the two went in with him to check the rooms while he used the Power to light the lamps and tossed the Dragon Scepter onto a small ivory-inlaid table that had considerably less gilt than it would have had in the Sun Palace.

They were tossed into the street, so bruised they could hardly walk and still struggling not to sniffle when they got back to the tents.

Only a dream-Bela, but the stout mare tossed her nose and whickered at sight of her.

Both thickly bordered the canopy of the bed and the drawn-back bed curtains, and one or the other decked the table and its stool, the arms and legs of the padded chair, the coverlet Egwene had tossed on the floor and the thin silk sheet that had followed.

Wondering whether he would return to find her wearing a white dress, he tossed his spear up to Vanin.

Had he stepped outside this palace without guards, he would have been sewn into a sack with rocks and tossed into the river.