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toss verb- (of a male) to masturbate UK, 1879
Often used with “off”. - He closed his eyes, allowed the onanistic thought some breathing space and tossed himself off something stupid. — Nick Earls, Perfect Skin, p. 134, 2001
- to get the better of someone; to overcome someone or something AUSTRALIA, 1949
- Men like Fairway are too big to toss. — Eric Lambert, The Veterans, p. 74, 1954
- They’ll have to get up might early to toss this sailor-boy. — John Wynnum, Tar Dust, p. 76, 1962
- to search a room, apartment, house, office or person without regard to the condition in which the premises or person are left US, 1939
- I don’t get tossed too often. One time I got tossed three days in a row. Usually I don’t. Maybe once every two moths. But they never find anything on me. — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 101, 1966
- Andy and Leaper had almost twenty-three on them when they got tossed. — George V. Higgins, The Judgment of Deke Hunter, p. 31, 1976
- Yeah, but when I realized someone had broken in, the way the place was tossed, I told Miss Nolan, stay in the foyer and don’t move. — Elmore Leonard, Split Images, p. 12, 1981
- We toss the first banks today, then the broads tomorrow, the bookies Saturday, and so on. — Richard Condon, Prizzi’s Honor, p. 217, 1982
- to rob a place US
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 225, 1950
- to gulp a drink down
- I just tossed a fifth of gin / I’m going to dizz knee land. — Dada, Dizz Knee Land, 1992
- to create (graffiti) US
- [M]embers do not just write on a wall, they “throw” or “toss” graffiti on the wall. — Robert Jackson and Wesley McBride, Understanding Street Gangs, p. 80, 2000
▶ toss a grind to eat US- — Surfer Magazine, p. 30, February 1992
▶ toss chow to eat quickly and voraciously US- — Washington Post, 14 October 1993
▶ toss it in stop doing something AUSTRALIA, 1954- — John Wynnum, Jiggin’ in the Riggin’, p. 58, 1965
- “How’s the old public service?” “I don’t know. I tossed it in.” — Alexander Buzo, Rooted, p. 79, 1969
- — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 180, 1987
▶ toss it to to have sex with a woman US- You’ve tossed it to her so often, you’ve thrown your ass off line with your eyeballs. — Jim Thompson, Pop. 1280, p. 191, 1964
▶ toss salad to engage in oral stimulation of the anus US- You know what they make you do in County? Toss the fucking salad! I don’t like this fuck’s asshole; I’m gonna do it for some stranger. — Kevin Smith, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, p. 14, 2001
▶ toss the boards to play three card molly, a street swindle in which the object is to identify a given card among three cards that are quickly moved around US- We both knew how to toss the boards, but he was better than me. — Donald Goines, Whoreson, p. 35, 1972
▶ toss the tiger to vomit NEW ZEALAND, 1960 A visual allusion to multi-coloured vomit.- — Harry Orsman, A Dictionary of Modern New Zealand Slang, p. 141, 1999
▶ toss your cookies to vomit US, 1941 Children’s vocabulary.- The cab I had was a real old one that smelled like someone’d just tossed his cookies in it. — J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye, p. 81, 1951
- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 99, 1968
▶ toss your lollies to vomit NEW ZEALAND- — David McGill, David McGill’s Complete Kiwi Slang Dictionary, p. 128, 1998
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