Toss Off

  

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Toss Off

Definition: Toss Off

Toss Off

Verb

1. Write quickly, as of letters or notes.

2. Drink down entirely; "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Toss Off

DomainDefinition

Multilingual Slang

Dutch (afrukken, aftrekken). (references)

Slang in 1811

TOSS OFF. Manual pollution. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Toss Off

Synonyms: belt down (v), bolt down (v), dash off (v), down (v), drink down (v), fling off (v), kill (v), knock off (v), pour down (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Toss Off

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Drunkenness

Liquor, liquor up; wet one's whistle, take a whet; crack a bottle, pass the bottle; toss off; (drink up); go to the alehouse, go to the public house.

Food

Drink in, drink up, drink one's fill; quaff, sip, sup; suck, suck up; lap; swig; swill, chugalug, tipple; (be drunken); empty one's glass, drain the cup; toss off, toss one's glass; wash down, crack a bottle, wet one's whistle.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: Toss Off

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Mom, I never toss off to anything! (Weird Science; writing credit: John Hughes)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: Toss Off

Expression using "toss off": To toss off. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Toss Off

Language Translations for "toss off"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

rrëkëllej, bëj fët-e-fët. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏أنهى بسرعة, ‏أرسل (deliver, detach, emit, expedite, forward, issue, route, send, send off, transmit). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

скалъпвам (carpenter, cook up, fabricate, indite, piece together, put together, rig up, think up), свършвам набързо (run through, scurry through), гаврътвам (lower, throw down, whip off), нахвърлям набързо (touch off), написвам набързо (jot down), импровизирам (ad lib, extemporize, fake, gag, improvise, jam, throw off). (various references)

   

Czech

  

rychle vyřídit. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zich aftrekken (jack off), zich afrukken (jack off), onaneren (jack off). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

onani (jack off). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ryyppäistä (sip). (various references)

   

French

  

se branler, faire une branlette, expédier (to dispatch, to forward, to send), avaler d'un coup (toss). (various references)

   

German

  

runterkippen (toss back), kippen (cant, overturn, plummet, tilt, tilt over, tip, tip over, tip up, tipping, to cant, to topple, topple, toss back), hinwerfen (dash off, plonk, shove down, throw down, to throw down), hinhauen (bang down, be ok, hit hard, knock off, plonk, plonk down, slam down, work). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πίνω βιαστικά. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לשרבט (doodle, scrabble, scrawl, scribble), ל'מור במ"ירות. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ledob (cast down, drop, precipitate, throw down, to drop, to pitch off, to precipitate, to release, to spill, to throw down, to throw off, to toss off, to tumble down), gyorsan elintéz (to knock off). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sfornare (bring out, take out of the oven), buttare giù (push off). (various references)

   

Manx

  

cur laue chooilleeney, bwoailley y crackan. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

osstay offay

   

Russian 

  

выпивать залпом. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sklepati (knock off, knock together, tack), popiti na iskap (drink smth. down, drink up, knock back), odbaciti (abandon, cast aside, cast away, disallow, discard, dismiss, leave, off it, reject, repel, repudiate, repulse, set apart, throw away). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

hacerse una paja (jack off, jerk off), escribir rapidísimamente, despachar (attend to, conclude, despatch, dismiss, dispatch, dispose of, expedite, finish, sack, see to, send, send off, serve, settle, ship, transmit, turn away). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tota svänga ihop, kasta upp (chuck, fling up, throw up), kasta ner (dash down, jot, jot down, run off), kasta av sig (fling off, throw off). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yuvarlamak (belt down, bowl, elide, roll, slosh down, trundle), yapıvermek (give, hustle up, throw together), mahmuzlamak (dig, rowel, spur), bir dikişte içmek (drink off, quaff off), bir çırpıda yapmak (rustle up). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

випити залпом, зробити похапцем. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Toss Off

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-f-o-o-s-s-t"

-2 letters: foots, softs, soots, toffs.

-3 letters: foot, foss, offs, oots, soft, soot, sots, toff, toss.

-4 letters: off, oft, oot, sos, sot, too.

-5 letters: of, os, so, to.

 Words containing the letters "f-f-o-o-s-s-t"
 

+2 letters: offshoots.

 

+3 letters: foodstuffs.

 

+5 letters: suffocations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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