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Picture a quick, light flick of the hand that sends something up or away with little effort — a casual throw, not a hard or aimed one. From that one easy motion grows everything else: a coin flicked up to decide, a salad flicked over to mix, a head flicked back, or a boat flicked around by the .

可以想成手腕輕輕一抖，把東西往上或往外一送，不費力、也不太瞄準——是隨手一拋，不是用力擲。整個字都從這個輕快的小動作…更多收起可以想成手腕輕輕一抖，把東西往上或往外一送，不費力、也不太瞄準——是隨手一拋，不是用力擲。整個字都從這個輕快的小動作長出來：硬幣往上一彈來做決定、沙拉翻拌一下、頭往後一甩、或船被浪一上一下地拋來拋去。

原始詞典資料25 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

tossnoun/tɒs/

  • 1

    A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.

  • 2

    ball-gamescricketgamesThe coin toss before a cricket match in order to decide who bats first, or before a football match in order to decide the direction of play.

  • 3

    A haughty throwing up of the head.

  • 4

    slangConcern or consideration.

    • I don't give a toss about her.
  • 5

    slangA state of agitation; commotion.

    • This put us at the board into a Tosse.
    • "We are all in a toss, in our neighborhood," said Mistress Pottle.
  • 6

    A measure of sprats.

    • It will differ from the heaped measure of oysters, improperly called the peck, by about one-seventh part in excess, and from the toss of sprats by about one-third part in excess.
  • 7

    broadcastingmediaA handover from one presenter to another, announced by the first presenter.

    • The introduction would still be done by the Monitor host in New York's Studio 5B, followed by the toss to the newsperson in Washington.
  • 8

    slangNonsense; drivel.

    • Then I look again at this message. What a load of toss.
    • 'You were,' John said, with infinite love, 'talking such absolute toss.'
另外 1 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    vulgarAn act of masturbation.

    • And Uncle Frank is having a wank, And Auntie Floss is having a toss, With Grandad.
    • This girl was a wank, a toss, something to be used over and over again, even when she was a pensioner; the pictures would be around till the next millennium.

tossverb/tɒs/

  • 1

    To throw with an initial upward direction.

    • Toss it over here!
    • President Trump posted an AI-generated video on Thursday on Truth Social that showed him tossing a “Trump 2028” hat at House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.).
  • 2

    To lift with a sudden or violent motion.

    • to toss the head
    • He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me, He would not stay.
  • 3

    To agitate; to make restless.

    • Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.
  • 4

    To subject to trials; to harass.

    • Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men.
  • 5

    To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.

    • We should toss for it.
    • I'll toss you for it.
  • 6

    informalTo discard; to throw away.

    • I don't need it any more; you can just toss it.
  • 7

    To stir or mix (a salad).

    • to toss a salad; a tossed salad.
  • 8

    slangTo masturbate.

另外 7 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    informalTo search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables or evidence of a crime.

    • John Orr had occasion to complain in writing to the senior supervisor that his Playboy and Penthouse magazines had been stolen by deputies. And he believed that was what prompted a random search of his cell for contraband. He was stripped, handcuffed, and forced to watch as they tossed his cell.
    • Rankin and Willingham, when they tossed his cell, they took Polaroids so they could get everything back in place.
  • 10

    To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.

    • tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep
    • “We can’t stand this, you know,” the young Englishmen said to each other; and they tossed about all night more boisterously than they had tossed upon the Atlantic billows.
  • 11

    To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean, or as a ship in heavy seas.

    • Even now did the sea toss up upon our shore
  • 12

    obsoleteTo keep in play; to tumble over.

    • spend four or fiue yeares, in tossing all the rules of Grammer in common scholes
  • 13

    hobbieslifestylerowingTo peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat.

  • 14

    slangTo drink in large draughts; to gulp.

    • Their modest stole, to garish looser weed, Deck'd with love-favours their late whoredoms' meed: And where they wont sip of the simple flood, Now toss they bowls of Bacchus' boiling blood,
    • Why, forſooth, an you think ſo, you had beſt go to bed. For my part, I mean to toſs a Can, and remember my Sweet-Heart, afore I turn in; may-hap I may dream of her.
  • 15

    slangTo vomit.

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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。