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Plural of toss

regular plural

The plural of toss is tosses.

Forms of toss

Singulartoss /tɒs/
Pluraltosses
Countablecountable and uncountable

Tosses in a sentence

  • Each child tosses a pog into the arena, face-up or face-down, as agreed.1997, Iona Archibald Opie, Peter Opie, Children's Games with Things, page 120. From the entry slammer
  • She has long, raven-colored hair with a floppy widow's peak, and tosses it agitatedly as she speaks.1974 April 27, Gary Jane Hoisington, “Susan Sontag”, in Gay Community News, page 8. From the entry agitatedly
  • Centre man tosses in the pineapple and all three run back to the car.1954, Ian Fleming, “Death of a Pelican”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 131. From the entry pineapple
  • In any given performance, their tosses and spins and leaps elicit oohs and ahhs from children and adults.2009 January 4, Joe Brescia, “Twins Graduate From Columbia to Stardom at the Circus”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on…. From the entry ooh
  • If she's feeling adventurous, she says, she tosses in a little curry powder to spice up the dish.1994 April 13, Karol V. Menzi, “Like it or not, mom was right about broccoli”, in The Baltimore Sun. From the entry broccoloid

Meaning of toss

  1. noun A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.
  2. noun The 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. noun A haughty throwing up of the head.

Full definition of toss

Questions about the plural of toss

What is the plural of toss?
The plural of toss is tosses.
Is toss countable?
Toss is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: toss (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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