toss

toss is a 4-letter English word with 19 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 4 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.
2. transitive verb. To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head.
3. transitive verb. To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm.
4. transitive verb. To agitate; to make restless.
5. transitive verb. Hence, to try; to harass.
6. transitive verb. To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar.
7. intransitive verb. To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to fling.
8. intransitive verb. To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean.
9. noun. A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as, the toss of a ball.
10. noun. A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk.
11. noun. (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team

    "the pass was fumbled"

    Synonyms: flip, pass

12. noun. an abrupt movement

    "a toss of his head"

13. noun. the act of flipping a coin

    Synonyms: flip

14. verb. agitate

    "toss the salad"

15. verb. throw or toss with a light motion

    "flip me the beachball"

    "toss me newspaper"

    Synonyms: flip, pitch, sky

16. verb. throw carelessly

    "chuck the ball"

    Synonyms: chuck

17. verb. move or stir about violently

    "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"

    Synonyms: convulse, jactitate, slash, thrash, thresh

18. verb. lightly throw to see which side comes up

    "I don't know what to do--I may as well flip a coin!"

    Synonyms: flip

19. verb. throw or cast away

    "Put away your worries"

    Synonyms: discard, dispose, fling

Synonyms

flip, pass, pitch, sky, chuck, convulse, jactitate, slash, thrash, thresh, discard, dispose, fling

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in toss:

sots

Common word forms

tos, tossed, tosser, tosses, tossing, tossment

Words from these letters

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