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pitch-and-toss

pitch-and-toss is the alternative form of pitch and toss.

Meaning of pitch and toss

Noun

pitch and toss (uncountable)

  1. A game played by tossing a coin and calling heads or tails.
    Synonyms:
    heads or tails
  2. A game in which coins are thrown at a mark, the person who throws nearest having the right of tossing all the coins, and keeping those which come down head uppermost.
  3. (figuratively) Careless treatment of something, or trusting to luck about it.
    • to play pitch and toss with the property of the country1866, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XIX, in Felix Holt, the Radical […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC

Questions about pitch-and-toss

What is pitch-and-toss the alternative form of?
Pitch-and-toss is the alternative form of pitch and toss.

Words near pitch-and-toss in the dictionary

  1. pitch upon
  2. pitch woo
  3. pitch-accent
  4. pitch-accents
  5. pitch-and-putt
  6. pitch-and-toss
  7. pitch-apple
  8. pitch-black
  9. pitch-blackened
  10. pitch-blackness
  11. pitch-dark

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