toss off
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.91 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Let me toss off this beer first."
- "A mandrill baboon, at Wombwell's menagerie, was very partial to fermented liquors and ginger beer; the large dog-faced baboon, that died at the Tower in 1828, would toss off a pot of porter with great relish, and was such an excessive toper that he at last sunk under a confirmed dropsy; a young ruffed lemur, at the Paris Museum of Natural History, was partial to spirits; […]"
- "They drank the health of the Nestor of American poets, and the said Nestor thanked them in German, for all the speeches were in the German language. The beer was a very light tipple, and it seemed to me that one must toss off a good many pots of it before becoming tipsy. I am to go to a private dinner to-night, the last of the Taylor festivities."
- "I tossed off a letter to the local council."
- "He tossed off a few platitudes and then ignored any further questions."
- "Tyrion tells him a great house (the Tyrells) has already been wiped out of history. “Don’t let it happen again.” But he says it like a trusted authority, a casual command, not taking the boy seriously. Basically, he tosses off the line, expecting that to be the end of the conversation"
Usage
- Dated
- Transitive verb
- British usage
- Slang