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tosser
noun- someone who is considered worthless or despicable UK, 1977
A synonym of WANKER- [I]f you’re gonna do crime, go for the big bucks like all those rich tossers in the city. — Donald Gorgon, Cop Killer, p. 66, 1994
- “Fuck sitting around here – let’s get off and find these tossers!” said one of our top faces. — Martin King and Martin Knight, The Naughty Nineties, p. 199, 1999
- After “In the City”, like a tosser, I gave [Placebo] a bad review and was top of their hit list. — John Robb, The Nineties, p. 340, 1999
- I was not an old toss. I was not even forty[.] — James Hawes, Dead Long Enough, p. 19, 2000
- [F]ucking new labour old tories – bunch of fucking tossers all of them – even the Welsh ones for fuck’s sake. — Patrick Jones, Everything Must Go, p. 167, 2000
- [I]t is impossible to quote your own gags without sounding like a tosser. — Frank Skinner, Frank Skinner, p. 3, 2001
- [P]oxy women drivers who were forever SLOWING DOWN for fellow shoppers, parkers, cyclists, pedestrians, pensioners and all the other pondlife who had nothing better to do all day but HOLD HIM UP! TOSSERS! — Garry Bushell, The Face, p. 3, 2001
- nothing at all; something of very little value UK: SCOTLAND
From the meaning as “a penny” (a coin of little value). - Disny matter whit ye say, he couldny gie a tosser. — Michael Munro, The Patter, Another Blast, p. 73, 1988
- a penny UK, 1934
From the low value coin used in games of pitch-and-toss. Still current in Northen Ireland. - So poor old Matt, off he went in the rain and then back to his dingy old room just him and the cat not a tosser between them. — Patrick McCabe, The Butcher Boy, p. 80, 1992
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