toss
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)(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.
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(countable, uncountable)A haughty throwing up of the head.
- 4.
(British, countable, slang, uncountable)(British slang, chiefly in the negative) Concern or consideration.
I don't give a toss about her.
- 5.
(British, countable, slang, uncountable)(British slang) A state of agitation; commotion.
- 6.
(countable, uncountable)(Billingsgate Fish Market slang) A measure of sprats.
- 7.
(countable, uncountable)(broadcasting) A handover from one presenter to another, announced by the first presenter.
The introduction would still be done by the Monitor host in New York's Studio 5B, followed by the toss to the newsperson in Washington.
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(UK, slang, uncountable)Nonsense; drivel.
- 9.
(UK, countable, uncountable, vulgar)An act of masturbation.
Động từ
verb- 1.
To throw with an initial upward direction.
Toss it over here!
Đồng nghĩa: chuck, fling, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck, fling, jerk, heave, hield, hoy, huck, hurl, hurtle, launch, lob, peck, peg, pick, pitch, precipitate, project, quoit, shy, slight, skew, sling, thrill, throw, toss, traject, warp, whang, whip, whop, wing
- 2.
To lift with a sudden or violent motion.
to toss the head
- 3.
To agitate; to make restless.
Đồng nghĩa: perturb, provoke, vex
- 4.
To subject to trials; to harass.
Đồng nghĩa: beleaguer, beset, pester
- 5.
To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.
We should toss for it.
I'll toss you for it.
- 6.
(informal, transitive)To discard; to throw away.
I don't need it any more; you can just toss it.
Đồng nghĩa: toss out, throw out, junk, 86, bin, can, cast aside, cast off, cast away, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, discard, dispose of, ditch, dump, get rid of, jettison, pitch, scrap, shift, throw aside, throw away, throw out, toss, trash
- 7.
To stir or mix (a salad).
to toss a salad; a tossed salad.
- 8.
(UK, slang)To masturbate.
Đồng nghĩa: wank, abuse, bash one out, bate, beat it, beat off, crank one out, fap, frig, goon, jack off, jack it, jerk, jerk it, jerk the gherkin, jerk off, jork it, knock one out, make the bald man cry, masturbate, mastuprate, play pocket pool, play with oneself, pleasure oneself, rub one out, self-abuse, self-pollute, service oneself, skeet, stroke, toss, toss off, touch oneself, wank, wank off, whack off, yank
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(informal, transitive)To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables or evidence of a crime.
- 10.
(intransitive)To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.
tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep
Đồng nghĩa: welter, thrash
- 11.
(intransitive)To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean, or as a ship in heavy seas.
Đồng nghĩa: bucket about, uptoss
- 12.
(obsolete)To keep in play; to tumble over.
- 13.
(rowing) To peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat.
- 14.
(UK, slang)To drink in large draughts; to gulp.
Đồng nghĩa: chug, guzzle, drink, hydrate, imbibe, wet one's whistle, wet one's beak
- 15.
(slang, usually)(slang, usually as "toss one's cookies") To vomit.
Đồng nghĩa: chuck, hurl, bait, barf, be sick, blow chunks, boak, boke, boot, bork, bow down before the porcelain god, cast, cast up one's accounts, chuck, chuck up, chunder, disgorge, drive the porcelain bus, erupt, gag, get sick, heave, honk, hurl, launch one's lunch, lose one's lunch, pray to the porcelain god, puke, puke up, purge, ralph, regurge, regurgitate, retch, shoot the cat, sick, sick up, spew, talk to God on the big white telephone, talk to Ralph on the big white telephone, throw up, toss, toss one's cookies, upchuck, vomit, woof one's cookies, whoops, worship the porcelain god, worship the porcelain goddess, yak
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From Middle English tossen (to buffet about, agitate, toss; to sift or winnow), of origin. Perhaps from Old Norse - (compare dialectal tossa, dialectal tossa), or perhaps from an alteration of Middle English tosen (to tease, pull apart, shred; to wound, injure). Compare also tassen.