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toss off

toss off verb: to drink up rapidly.

Verb

toss off (third-person singular simple present tosses off, present participle tossing off, simple past and past participle tossed off)

  1. (dated, transitive) To drink up rapidly.
    • Let me toss off this beer first.
    • A mandrill baboon, at Wombwell's menagerie, was very partial to fermented liquors and ginger beer; the large dog-faced baboon, that died at the Tower in 1828, would toss off a pot of porter with great relish, and was such an excessive toper that he at last sunk under a confirmed dropsy; a young...1844 March 16, “Partiality of animals for wine, spirits, &c.”, in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, volume 5 (New Series), number 11, page 164
    Synonyms:
    throw back
  2. (transitive) To assemble hastily.
    • I tossed off a letter to the local council.
    Synonyms:
    fire off
  3. (UK, ambitransitive, slang, vulgar) To masturbate.
  4. (transitive) To deliver (a remark, suggestion, etc.) in an offhand manner.
    • He tossed off a few platitudes and then ignored any further questions.
    • Tyrion tells him a great house (the Tyrells) has already been wiped out of history. “Don’t let it happen again.” But he says it like a trusted authority, a casual command, not taking the boy seriously. Basically, he tosses off the line, expecting that to be the end of the conversation2017 August 13, Brandon Nowalk, “Oldtown offers one last game-changing secret as Game Of Thrones goes behind enemy lines (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club

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Forms of toss off

third-person singular presenttosses off
present participletossing off
past participletossed off
pasttossed off

Questions about toss off

What does toss off mean?
Toss off means to drink up rapidly.
What part of speech is toss off?
Toss off is a verb.
What is the past tense of toss off?
The past tense of toss off is tossed off.

Words near toss off in the dictionary

  1. toss it in
  2. toss job
  3. toss jobs
  4. toss juggling
  5. toss of the coin
  6. toss off
  7. toss one's cookies
  8. toss one's hat in the ring
  9. toss one's hat into the ring
  10. toss one's name in the hat
  11. toss out

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