tossverb
uk/tɒs/us/tɑːs/toss verb (THROW)
C2 [ T usually + adv/prep ] to throw something carelessly:
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- Let's toss a coin to see who'll go first.
- He tossed the letter into the bin.
- They tossed the beggars a few coins.
- I tossed a few clothes into a suitcase.
- I tossed a clove of garlic into the stew.
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Throwing
- cast
- chuck
- flick
- fling
- heave
- hurl
- overhand
- peg
- pelt
- precipitate
- project
- projectile
- sling
- slung
- stone
- throw
- throw-in
- thrown
- underarm
- underhand
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toss verb (FOOD)
[ T ] When you toss food you shake or mix small pieces of it together with a sauce or dressing:
to quickly and suddenly lift the pan in which a pancake (= a thin, flat, round cake) is cooking so that the pancake goes up into the air and turns over before falling back into the pan
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Preparing food
- butter
- can't boil an egg idiom
- caramelize
- carve
- clarified
- cube
- dice
- fold
- knead
- leaven
- liquidize
- malt
- marinade
- salt
- slow food
- spice
- stuffed
- sweeten
- thicken
- thin
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toss verb (MOVE)
[ T ] If you toss your hair or a part of your body you move it up and back suddenly:
to move about from side to side or turn a lot in bed, especially because you cannot sleep:
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Making short, sudden movements
- aquiver
- convulse
- convulsion
- convulsive
- cringe
- flick
- jerky
- jig
- jiggle
- jolt
- judder
- palpitate
- pull away
- quiver
- shrink
- squirm
- tremulous
- whip
- worry at sth
- wriggle
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toss verb (COIN)
C1 [ I or T ] also toss sb for sth, UK also toss up to throw a coin up into the air and guess which side will land facing up, as a way of making a decision:
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Decisions and deciding
- be make or break for sb/sth idiom
- be on the horns of a dilemma idiom
- clinch
- clincher
- come down on one side of the fence or the other idiom
- come to sth
- decider
- fight
- hammer sth out
- head
- it's a date idiom
- judgment call
- lot
- make or break sth idiom
- make up your mind idiom
- mind
- nail sth down
- name
- name the day idiom
- spin a coin idiom
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Phrasal verb(s)
tossnoun
uk/tɒs/us/tɑːs/toss noun (MOVEMENT)
[ C usually singular ] a sudden quick movement:
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Making short, sudden movements
- aquiver
- convulse
- convulsion
- convulsive
- cringe
- flick
- jerky
- jig
- jiggle
- jolt
- judder
- palpitate
- pull away
- quiver
- shrink
- squirm
- tremulous
- whip
- worry at sth
- wriggle
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toss noun (THROW)
an act of throwing a coin in the air and guessing which side will land facing upward as a way of deciding something
to guess correctly/wrongly which side of a coin will be facing up when it lands on the ground after being thrown
[ C ] an act of throwing something in a careless or relaxed way
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Decisions and deciding
- be make or break for sb/sth idiom
- be on the horns of a dilemma idiom
- clinch
- clincher
- come down on one side of the fence or the other idiom
- come to sth
- decider
- fight
- hammer sth out
- head
- it's a date idiom
- judgment call
- lot
- make or break sth idiom
- make up your mind idiom
- mind
- nail sth down
- name
- name the day idiom
- spin a coin idiom
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