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Tossing

verb
Word Frequency: 1.8

Definitions

1.verbTo throw with an initial upward direction.
"Toss it over here!"
2.verbTo lift with a sudden or violent motion.
"to toss the head"
3.verbTo agitate; to make restless.
4.verbTo subject to trials; to harass.
5.verbTo flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.
"I'll toss you for it."
6.verbTo discard: to toss out
"I don't need it any more; you can just toss it."
7.verbTo stir or mix (a salad).
"to toss a salad; a tossed salad."
8.verb(British slang) To masturbate
9.verbTo search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables or evidence of a crime.
""Someone tossed just his living room and bedroom." / "They probably found what they were looking for.""
10.verbTo roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.
"tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep"
11.verbTo be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean, or as a ship in heavy seas.
12.verbTo keep in play; to tumble over.
"to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar"
13.verbTo peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat.
14.verb(British slang) To drink in large draughts; to gulp.
15.nounThe motion of something that tosses; a throwing or sudden rising and falling.
16.nounThe process of washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earthy particles; tozing.
17.nounA process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted.
18.adjectiveUsed to disparage or curse someone or something.
"I can't get this tossing program to work."

Synonyms

movingagitatedthrowinghurlinglaunchingcoinlayingflingingpitchingcastingheavinglobbing

Rhymes With

pedestrian crossingbossingglossingschool crossinglevel crossinggrade crossingzebra crossingflossing
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