Usually means: Coin flip determining two outcomes.
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  1. heads or tails: Merriam-Webster
  2. heads or tails: Wordnik
  3. heads or tails: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. heads or tails: Wiktionary
  5. heads or tails: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. heads or tails, heads or tails: Dictionary.com
  7. Heads or Tails (disambiguation), Heads or Tails, Heads or tails: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Heads or Tails: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  9. heads or tails: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Heads or tails: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. heads or tails: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (heads or tails)

▸ noun:  (idiomatic) The practice of flipping a coin in the air, to choose between two alternatives based on which side lands face up.

Similar:
pitch and toss, toss-up, coin toss, pitch-and-toss, cross and pile, odd man wins, toss, odd man out, chuck and toss, a bob each way, more...

Opposite:
obverse, face, front

Phrases:
make heads or tails of, more...

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Similar:
pitch and toss, toss-up, coin toss, pitch-and-toss, cross and pile, odd man wins, toss, odd man out, chuck and toss, a bob each way, more...

Opposite:
obverse, face, front

Phrases:
make heads or tails of, more...



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