tossup
tossup is the alternative form of toss-up.
Meaning of toss-up
Noun
toss-up (plural toss-ups)
- 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.
- 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
- The toss of a coin used to decide some issue.
- A toss-up question.
Forms of tossup
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Origin of tossup
Deverbal from toss up.
Words formed from tossup
Phrases with tossup
Questions about tossup
- What is tossup the alternative form of?
- Tossup is the alternative form of toss-up.
Words near tossup in the dictionary
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