toss up

toss up

See also: tossup and toss-up

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Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To make a decision based on chance, for example by flipping a coin or rolling a dice.
2. (intransitive) To throw something upwards.
3. (transitive) To produce, generate.
4. (transitive) To cook something quickly.
5. (transitive) To casually mention as an idea.
6. (slang) To vomit.
   • 1997, Lee Hall, Athena: A Biography (page 15)

     He began to vomit. Retching violently, he tossed up first the swaddled stone that he had eaten in the belief that it was Zeus, and then he vomited up Zeus's elder brothers and sisters […]

Translations

to make a decision based on chance

Chinese: Mandarin: 孤注一掷 (zh) (gū zhù yì zhí) Italian: tirare a sorte

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