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tossed

/taws, tos/US // tɔs, tɒs //UK // (tɒs) //

抛出的,扔掉了,扔掉的,扔掉

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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    tossed or tost; toss·ing.

    • : to throw, pitch, or fling, especially to throw lightly or carelessly: to toss a piece of paper into the wastebasket.
    • : to throw or send from one to another, as in play: to toss a ball.
    • : to throw or pitch with irregular or careless motions; fling or jerk about: The ship was tossed by waves.
    • : to agitate, disturb, or disquiet.
    • : to throw, raise, or jerk upward suddenly: She tossed her head disdainfully.
    • : to speak or express in a sudden offhand manner; interject: He tossed jokes into their serious discussion.
    • : to throw into the air in order to decide something by the side turned up when it falls.
    • : to toss a coin with.
    • : to stir or mix lightly until the ingredients are coated with the dressing.
v.无主动词 verb
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    tossed or tost; toss·ing.

    • : to pitch, rock, sway, or move irregularly, as a ship on a rough sea or a flag or plumes in the breeze.
    • : to fling or jerk oneself or move restlessly about, especially on a bed or couch: to toss in one's sleep.
    • : to throw something.
    • : to throw a coin into the air in order to decide something by the way it falls.
    • : to go with a fling of the body: to toss out of a room in a fit of anger.
n.名词 noun
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    • : an act or instance of tossing.
    • : a pitching about or up and down.
    • : a throw or pitch.
    • : tossup.
    • : the distance to which something is or may be thrown.
    • : a sudden fling or jerk of the body, especially a quick upward or backward movement of the head.
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    • : toss off, to accomplish quickly or easily.to consume rapidly, especially to drink something up in one swallow: He tossed off a cocktail before dinner.British Slang.to masturbate.
    • : toss up, Informal. to vomit.

Phrases

  • toss off
  • toss one's cookies
  • throw away (toss out)
  • throw (toss) one's hat in the ring

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbmove back and forth

Examples

  • On a single coin toss, the chances of getting heads or tails is one in two, but the chance of getting heads twice in a row is one in four.

  • Only a moment later, Mahomes zinged another 20-yard touchdown toss to Hill, giving him 261 yards on the day.

  • He passed for more than 400 yards for the fourth time in his career, and one of his five touchdown passes was an underhanded toss to Travis Kelce.

  • The center fielder booted a single, the cutoff man threw poorly toward home, the catcher whiffed a perfectly catchable toss and, just for unnecessary garnish, the losing pitcher forgot to back up home plate.

  • In the South Bay, a coin toss decided a 2000 race for a spot the Otay Water District board.

  • The moment came where newly graduated cops customarily toss their white gloves into the air in celebration.

  • Add olive oil to the pan and toss in the garlic and chili flake.

  • Toss the string beans and mesclun with enough dressing to moisten.

  • She was gambling on a coin toss where somehow “heads, you win” would have been politically more advantageous than “tails, I lose.”

  • Toss in Republican National Committee head Reince Priebus and his Democratic counterpart, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, too.

  • Then Squinty would toss the apple up in the air, off his nose, and catch it as it came down.

  • When he assails a calf, the cow will rush upon him, and one toss from her horns is sufficient to kill him.

  • Sues saucy, self-congratulatory toss of the head 14 stung her so that she could have cried out.

  • “I am sure they are going to use my idea,” Belle Ringold said, with a toss of her bobbed curls.

  • A pure toss up whether he pulls round or not; luckily he has a frame of iron.