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toss-ups

toss-ups is the plural of toss-up.

Meaning of toss-up

Noun

toss-up (plural toss-ups)

  1. (idiomatic) A decision in which neither choice is clearly favorable or unfavorable, or for which the outcome does not matter.
    • It's really a toss-up between the red skirt with blue stripes and the blue skirt with red stripes. They both look good and fit well.
  2. Either of two outcomes that are equally likely.
    • “He’ll do,” said the Doctor, quietly. “It must have been a toss-up all through the night. ’Think you’re to be congratulated on this case.”1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 151
  3. The toss of a coin used to decide some issue.
  4. A toss-up question.

Questions about toss-ups

What is toss-ups the plural of?
Toss-ups is the plural of toss-up.

Words near toss-ups in the dictionary

  1. toss-pot
  2. toss-pots
  3. toss-up
  4. toss-up question
  5. toss-up questions
  6. toss-ups
  7. tossa jute
  8. tossable
  9. tossaroon
  10. tossaroons
  11. tossed

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