pass, toss, flip
(noun) (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team; “the pass was fumbled”
toss
(noun) an abrupt movement; “a toss of his head”
flip, toss
(noun) the act of flipping a coin
toss
(verb) agitate; “toss the salad”
flip, toss, sky, pitch
(verb) throw or toss with a light motion; “flip me the beachball”; “toss me newspaper”
chuck, toss
(verb) throw carelessly; “chuck the ball”
convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate
(verb) move or stir about violently; “The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed”
flip, toss
(verb) lightly throw to see which side comes up; “I don’t know what to do--I may as well flip a coin!”
discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away, put away
(verb) throw or cast away; “Put away your worries”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
TOSs
plural of TOS
• OSTs, SSTO, osts, sots
toss (plural tosses)
A throw, a lob, of a ball etc, with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.
(cricket, football) The toss of a coin before a cricket match in order to decide who bats first, or before a football match in order to decide the direction of play.
A haughty throwing up of the head.
(British slang) A jot, in the phrase 'give a toss'.
(British slang) A state of agitation; commotion.
(Billingsgate Fish Market slang) A measure of sprats.
toss (third-person singular simple present tosses, present participle tossing, simple past and past participle (obsolete) tost or tossed)
To throw with an initial upward direction.
To lift with a sudden or violent motion.
To agitate; to make restless.
To subject to trials; to harass.
To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.
(informal) To discard: to toss out
To stir or mix (a salad).
(British slang) To masturbate
(transitive, informal) To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables or evidence of a crime.
(intransitive) To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.
(intransitive) To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean, or as a ship in heavy seas.
(obsolete) To keep in play; to tumble over.
(rowing) To peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat.
(British slang) To drink in large draughts; to gulp.
• OSTs, SSTO, osts, sots
Source: Wiktionary
Toss
Definition: , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tossed (; (less properly Tost ); p. pr. & vb. n. Tossing.] Etym: [ 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 tempeat. 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, to drink hastily.
– To toss the cars.See under Oar, n.
Toss, v. i.
1. To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to fling. To toss and fling, and to be restless, only frets and enreges our pain. Tillotson.
2. To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean. Shak. To toss for, to throw dice or a coin to determine the possession of; to gamble for.
– To toss up, to throw a coin into the air, and wager on which side it will fall, or determine a question by its fall. Bramsion.
Toss, n.
1. A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as, the toss of a ball.
2. A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk. Swift.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 June 2025
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
