The Collaborative International Dictionary
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. ]
To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.
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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.
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To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm.
We being exceedingly tossed with a tempest.
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To agitate; to make restless.
Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.
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Hence, to try; to harass.
Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men.
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To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar. [Obs.] --Ascham. To toss off,
to drink hastily.
to accomplish easily or quickly.
to say in an offhand manner; as, to toss off a comment.
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to masturbate; -- British slang.
To toss the cars.See under Oar, n.
Usage examples of "to toss off".
She resisted, just barely, the temptation to toss off her clothing and let the capricious breezes play over her skin.
Astron shook his head, trying to toss off the behavior as he had all the rest.
The fourth, a little slip of a red headed girl he should have been able to toss off, had his arm in a bar-lock and was watching quite calmly out of the deepest blue eyes.
She rolled her shoulders to toss off the sensation, and the memory of the dreams.
Riker, for his part, had his chin propped up on his hand, but spared a moment to toss off a cheery wave at Dexter before the door closed.
The building was a four-story brick Edwardian (architecturally, not quite the grand courtesan couture of the Victorians, but enough tarty trim and trash to toss off a sailor down a side street) built after the earthquake and fire of 1906 had leveled the whole area of what was now North Beach, Russian Hill, and Chinatown.
She would have preferred to remain at the rail and watch the pilot ship guide them into Ischia's harbor, but now was not the time to toss off the carefully built layers of deception.
Clearly she was about to toss off an answer, but then she stopped and considered a moment before she responded.
Frozen through, despite heavy underwear and bulky boots, gloves, and a sweater, Pug was glad to toss off several glassfuls with the general.