tosses

Noun

toss (countable and uncountable, plural tosses)

1. A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.
2. 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. A haughty throwing up of the head.
4. (British, slang) Concern or consideration.
   • I don't give a toss about her.
5. (British, slang) A state of agitation; commotion.
   • This put us at the board into a Tosse.1666 June 2, Samuel Pepys, Diary
6. (Billingsgate Fish Market slang) 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.1834, Sir Charles William Pasley, “That the cubic foot is the smallest measure, which ought to be used in wholesale dealings in fish or fruit”, in Observations on the expediency and practicability of...

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