toss

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I could never toss a coin without it landing in completely random places or hitting someone.

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Quick take

the act of flipping a coin

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of toss gathered in one view.

noun

the act of flipping a coin

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"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for toss.

noun

the act of flipping a coin

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"

verb

throw or toss with a light motion; "flip me the beachball"; "toss me newspaper"

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 carelessly; "chuck the ball"

verb

move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"

See also: convulse, thresh, thrash, slash, jactitate

verb

throw or cast away; "Put away your worries"

verb

agitate; "toss the salad"

Example sentences

I could never toss a coin without it landing in completely random places or hitting someone.

Whether one is better off in 15000 BC vs. 1500 AD, I would honestly call a toss-up, but I'd much rather be alive in 2011 AD than 15000 BC.

The amount of money spent to customize those systems over the years is enormous and big corps are not eager to toss that money spent away to start over.

He tells one to toss a coin a hundred times and record the sequence of heads and tails, while the others are to write down a sequence they think is random using their imagination.

If you're doing really poorly in an interview, I'll toss you some easier questions than I normally give, because I have all the information I need, and I don't want you to have a negative experience with my company.

While they may make a "promise" not to store my data, they can toss the list of opt-out users over the wall to another "entirely different" company which also collects my data and now sees fit to prioritize me.

And is it just me, or does this article not even take its own advice as evidenced by phrases such as "oh ye smart and lonely"?Some more nuanced advice would have been nice, so I'll toss this out there: my current effort is to avoid over-qualifying what I say.

But sometimes it just feels good to toss out your planned 20 mile run for the day, and just run out your front door and sprint around the block as hard as you can for 10 minutes, pushing yourself in a different way and learning something about your skills or capabilities that you never would otherwise.

This depressed me on too many levels to enumerate, but Ill toss out a few:- Someone had enough time to get these signs professionally printed and affixed to our fridges.- It was someones salaried, 40-hour-a-week job to do things like this.- Someone thought soda smuggling was a big enough problem at Microsoft to draw attention to it.