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Definition: Toss Off |
Toss OffVerb1. 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. |
| Domain | Definition |
Multilingual Slang | Dutch (afrukken, aftrekken). (references) |
Slang in 1811 | TOSS OFF. Manual pollution. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonyms: Toss OffSynonyms: 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Mom, I never toss off to anything! (Weird Science; writing credit: John Hughes) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
Expression using "toss off": To toss off. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 выпивать залпом. (various references) 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) 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) 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) 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) випити залпом, зробити похапцем. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Expressions | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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