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toss
noun- nonsense, especially if self-indulgent UK
- He’s a top lad, our Paul, but ‘e don’t ‘alf talk some fookin’ toss sometimes. — Shaun Ryder, Shaun Ryder... in His Own Words, 1990
- Fuckin Steps [a pop group] or some such fuckin God-awful toss. — Niall Griffiths, Kelly + Victor, p. 54, 2002
- Last week we described BBC-1’s Rescue Me [...] as “toss”. — The Burglar Diaries, p. 8, 12 March 2002
- something of little or no value UK
- The work you gentlemen do is not worth a toss. — Joe Morgan, Eastenders Don’t Cry, p. 107, 1994
- an act of masturbation UK, 1785
- If yer need a toss you wait ‘til association. We take it in turns, the rest of us go out [of the prison cell]. — Chris Baker and Andrew Day, Lock, Stock... & A Good Slopping Out, p. 411, 2000
- a search of a person or place US
- “Let’s chase him and give him a toss.” — Charles Whited, Chiodo, p. 88, 1973
- So if a policeman gets there before anybody else, he’ll give the apartment a fast toss, searching for cash, jewelry, anything of value. — Leonard Shecter and William Phillips, On the Pad, p. 97, 1973
- He had a wild, lucid look about him, so I gave him a toss. — James Ellroy, Brown’s Requiem, p. 49, 1981
- an armed robbery US
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 225, 1950
▶ not give a toss; not care a toss
to not care one way or another; to reject UK
Two suggested etymologies prevail, either “to not care enough to toss a coin” or “to toss (masturbate) yourself”; on balance, probably “to toss a coin” as it takes a deal less effort and therefore the rejection is greater.- [B]ut the thing is, I don’t fucking care, just don’t give a toss[.] — John King, White Trash, p. 66, 2001
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