Definition of: toss

(tôs, tos) v.t.
1. To throw, pitch, or fling about.
2. To make restless; agitate; disturb.
3. To throw with the hand, especially with the palm of the hand upward; pitch.
4. To lift with a quick motion, as the head.
5. To bandy about, as something discussed.
6. To toss up with. See TOSS UP, below.
—v.i.
7. To be moved or thrown about; be flung to and fro, as a ship in a storm.
8. To throw oneself from side to side; roll about restlessly, as in sleep.
9. To go quickly or angrily, as with a toss of the head.
10. To toss up a coin.
—to toss (or peak) oars To raise the oars out of the rowlocks to a vertical position.
—to toss off
1. To drink at one draft.
2. To utter, write, or do in an offhand manner.
—to toss up To throw a coin into the air to decide a wager or choice by the way in which it falls.
—noun
1. The act of tossing; specifically, a gentle throwing from the hand; a pitch; also, the distance over which a thing is tossed.
2. A quick upward or backward movement of the head; any quick jerk.
3. The state of being tossed about; excitement; agitation.
4. A toss–up or wager.
5. Scot. A belle; a toast. [Prob. <Scand. Cf. dial. Norw. tossa spread, strew.]
—toss′er noun