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Definition: Toss-up |
Toss-upNoun1. An unpredictable phenomenon; "it's a toss-up whether he will win or lose". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "toss-up" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references) |
Synonym: Toss-upSynonym: even chance (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Toss-up |
| English words defined with "toss-up": even chance. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's a toss-up. (Firefly; writing credit: John Sullivan) Well, it's a toss-up, I can tell you that. (Charade; writing credit: Peter Stone; Marc Behm) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Toss-up" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Toss-up" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "toss-up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 抛'' (Tossed, tossing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nyílt kérdés (vexed question), fej vagy írás (heads or tails, pitch-and-toss, toss, toss up), egyenlő esély (even bet, even chance, even money). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 던지십시" 위로. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oss-uptay incerteza (doubt, dubiety, haziness, if, incertitude, maze, suspense, uncertainty). (various references) e chestie de noroc (it's a toss-up). (various references) cara o cruz (heads or tails). (various references) slantsingling (toss, toss up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Toss-up" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tsi-uc. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: spouts, stoups, tossup, uptoss. | |
| Words within the letters "o-p-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: ousts, posts, pouts, soups, spots, spout, stops, stoup. | |
-2 letters: opts, opus, oust, outs, post, pots, pout, psst, puss, puts, sops, sots, soup, sous, spot, stop, sups, tops, toss, tups. | |
-3 letters: ops, opt, out, pot, pus, put, sop, sos, sot, sou, sup, top, tup, upo, ups, uts. | |
-4 letters: op, os, so, to, up, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "o-p-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: fusspot, outpass, sprouts, stupors, sunspot, tossups, unstops, upshots. | |
+2 letters: fusspots, hotspurs, outposts, outpress, outspans, postures, slipouts, soupiest, spinouts, spouters, subplots, sunspots, supports, upshoots, uptossed, uptosses, utopisms, utopists. | |
+3 letters: autopsies, housetops, octopuses, outpassed, outpasses, outpushes, outscoops, outsleeps, outspeaks, outspeeds, outspells, outspends, outstrips, pesthouse, phaseouts, pleustons, populists, postiques, postludes, posturers, potassium, pothouses, poussette, proestrus, proteuses, pulsators, pulsojets, pussyfoot, pussytoes, resprouts, sculptors, southpaws, spiritous, stuporous, subdepots, subtopias, subtopics, sumptuous, supersoft, taphouses, tuckshops, upstrokes, uptossing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 6F 73 73 2D 75 70 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101111 01110011 01110011 00101101 01110101 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T o s s - u p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 006F 0073 0073 002D 0075 0070 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54818585158782 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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