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▸ noun: (cricket, soccer) The coin toss before a cricket match in order to decide who bats first, or before a football match in order to decide the direction of play.
▸ noun: A haughty throwing up of the head.
▸ noun: (British slang) A jot, in the phrase 'give a toss'.
▸ noun: (British slang) A state of agitation; commotion.
▸ noun: (British slang, chiefly in the negative) concern or consideration.
▸ noun: (Billingsgate Fish Market slang) A measure of sprats.
▸ verb: To throw with an initial upward direction.
▸ verb: To lift with a sudden or violent motion.
▸ verb: To agitate; to make restless.
▸ verb: To subject to trials; to harass.
▸ verb: To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.
▸ verb: (informal, transitive) To discard; to throw away.
▸ verb: To stir or mix (a salad).
▸ verb: (British, slang) To masturbate
▸ verb: (transitive, informal) To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables or evidence of a crime.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean, or as a ship in heavy seas.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To keep in play; to tumble over.
▸ verb: (rowing) To peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat.
▸ verb: (British, slang) To drink in large draughts; to gulp.
▸ verb: (slang, usually as "toss one's cookies") To vomit.
Similar:
fling,
convulse,
stir,
thrash about,
thrash,
toss out,
chuck out,
throw away,
throw out,
cast away,
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