uptoss

uptoss

English

Etymology

From up- +‎ toss.

Verb

uptoss (third-person singular simple present uptosses, present participle uptossing, simple past and past participle uptossed)

1. (transitive) To toss up.
   • 1888, Virgil's Æneid

     […] and brasses reflective Gleam in the sun, and away to the clouds uptoss the refulgence: […]

2. (intransitive) To be tossed up.
   • 1904, The Century

     The boat drew closer and closer, hurling along through the seething green like a thing alive, lifting and sending and uptossing across the huge-backed breakers, or disappearing behind them only to rush into sight again […]

Noun

uptoss (plural uptosses)

1. A tossing up.
   • 1917, Collier's: incorporating features of the American magazine

     Sometimes its sky line was broken by an uptoss from some one overpowering blast.

   • 1922, Charles Hallock, William A. Bruette, Forest and Stream

     You can see even the smallest animals, such as porcupines and ground hogs, over a mile away, and the first step of a bear, or the first uptoss of a deer's head is seen instantly.

2. That which is tossed up. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Anagrams

• spouts, stoups, toss up, toss-up, tossup