Definition of toss

• v. t. - To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.
• v. t. - To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head.
• v. t. - To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm.
• v. t. - To agitate; to make restless.
• v. t. - Hence, to try; to harass.
• v. t. - To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar.
• v. i. - To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to fling.
• v. i. - To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean.
• n. - A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as, the toss of a ball.
• n. - A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk.