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動詞

toss up (三人称単数 現在形 tosses up, 現在分詞 tossing up, 過去形および過去分詞形 tossed up)

1. (intransitive) To make a decision based on chance, for example by flipping a coin or rolling a dice.
2. (intransitive) To throw something upwards.
3. (transitive) To produce, generate.
4. (transitive, Internet) To post or upload.
   • 2023 March 14, Alexandra Jacobs, “Your Annoying Roommate Is Slaying on TikTok”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Restless in quarantine, she began posting videos on Instagram, one of which got picked up by Barstool, the popular sports blog. […] Then she tossed up a few on TikTok, notably one in which she faux-naively referred to Houston Street in New York, which is pronounced How-ston, as Hew-ston.

5. (transitive) To cook something quickly.
6. (transitive) To casually mention as an idea.
7. (slang) To vomit.
   • 1997, Lee Hall, Athena: A Biography, page 15:

     He began to vomit. Retching violently, he tossed up first the swaddled stone that he had eaten in the belief that it was Zeus, and then he vomited up Zeus's elder brothers and sisters […]

8. (slang) To beat up, thrash.

   He got in a fight last night and got tossed up.

アナグラム

• spouts, stoups, uptoss

発音

名詞

toss-up (複数形 toss-ups)

1. (idiomatic) A decision in which neither choice is clearly favorable or unfavorable, or for which the outcome does not matter.

   It's really a toss-up between the red skirt with blue stripes and the blue skirt with red stripes. They both look good and fit well.

2. Either of two outcomes that are equally likely.
   • 2013 January 11, Tom Shone, The Guardian‎^[1]:

     No longer is the best picture going to be a toss-up between that troika of national-historical heavies: Argo, Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty. Instead, a warm welcome back for Life of Pi, widely dismissed by many as "this year's Hugo" but this column's dark-horse pick from October.

3. The toss of a coin used to decide some issue.

派生語

アナグラム

• spouts, stoups, uptoss

アナグラム

• spouts, stoups