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Toss off   /tɔs ɔf/   Listen
verb
Toss  v. t.  (past & past part. tossed, less properly tost; pres. part. tossing)  
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."
3.
To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm. "We being exceedingly tossed with a tempest."
4.
To agitate; to make restless. "Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent."
5.
Hence, to try; to harass. "Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men."
6.
To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar. (Obs.)
To toss off,
(a)
to drink hastily.
(b)
to accomplish easily or quickly.
(c)
to say in an offhand manner; as, to toss off a comment.
(d)
to masturbate; British slang.
To toss the cars.See under Oar, n.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Toss off" Quotes from Famous Books



... He had no intention of spoiling his last days by working. Every morning the Sixth went in for a three hours' paper, at nine-thirty. Before eleven Gordon had always shown up his papers, and strolled out of the room to read Paradise Lost in his study. In the afternoon he usually managed to toss off the two hours' exam. in three quarters of ...
— The Loom of Youth • Alec Waugh

... wounded, and the powerful voice of Vincent. It was terrific between decks; the smoke was so thick, that those who came down for the powder could not see, but felt their way to the screen. Every two seconds, I heard the men come aft, toss off the can of liquor, and throw it on the deck, hen they went to resume ...
— Percival Keene • Frederick Marryat



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