toss

  • 51toss — I. n British 1. something futile, worthless or useless. A word usually found in the phrase a load of old toss . It denotes the semen ejaculated in masturbation, and is influ enced also by tosh meaning nonsense. 2. an obnoxious and/or foolish… …

    Contemporary slang

  • 52toss-up — n. a matter of chance. (As predictable as the outcome of the toss of a coin.) □ Nobody knew what to do. It was a toss up. □ Who knows what will happen? It’s a toss up …

    Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • 53toss up —    When there are two options or possibilities to choose from, and both are equally good, the choice between the two is called a toss up (like tossing a coin).     Both boxers are in excellent condition. It s a toss up which of them will win …

    English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • 54toss-up — noun 1 it s a toss up spoken used when you do not know which of two things will happen, or which of two things to choose: “I don t know who ll get the job it s a toss up between Carl and Steve.” 2 (countable usually singular) BrE an act of… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 55toss-up — /ˈtɒs ʌp / (say tos up) noun 1. the tossing up of a coin or the like to decide something by the side on which it falls. 2. Colloquial an even chance: *It was a toss up which would win, the host of friends or the host of white ants. –kylie tennant …

  • 56toss-up — noun Date: 1812 1. toss 2b 2. an even chance 3. something that offers no clear basis for choice …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 57toss-up — noun a) A decision in which neither choice is clearly favorable or unfavorable, or for which the outcome does not matter. Its really a toss up between the red skirt with blue stripes and the blue skirt with red stripes. They both look good and… …

    Wiktionary

  • 58toss up — Synonyms and related words: blind bargain, borderline case, chance, chance at odds, contingency, double contingency, even break, even chance, fair shake, fifty fifty, gamble, gambling chance, guess, half a chance, matter of chance, odds, open… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 59Toss up — 1. weigh up in order to make a decision; 2. even chance: The election is a toss up …

    Dictionary of Australian slang

  • 60toss up — Australian Slang 1. weigh up in order to make a decision; 2. even chance: The election is a toss up …

    English dialects glossary