toss off
phrasal verb
tossed off; tossing off; tosses off
1
informal
: to produce (something) quickly and without much effort
He tossed off a few lines of poetry.
2
informal
: to drink (something) quickly
He tossed off a shot of whiskey.
3
British, informal + impolite
: to touch or rub one's own sexual organs for sexual pleasure : to masturbate
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Her body was eventually tossed off a cliff but the teens returned later and mutilated her corpse, cutting the body at least 180 times, removing a portion of a lung and cutting off her fingers, court records show.
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Marty Roney, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
When public officials blithely toss off outrageous accusations such as those leveled against the Haitian immigrant community in Springfield, Ohio, the real-world consequences are all too real.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2024
He’s left a distinctive stamp on the orchestra’s sound in the years since, whether declaiming the beginning of Mahler 5 with a preacher’s conviction or, as in a recent Ravinia concert, tossing off a ragtime solo with waggish virtuosity.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2024
She’s not appreciated at home, where her ailing mother Jean (Melanie Nicholls-King) can barely be coaxed off the couch without tossing off a combative word at her daughter.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 9 July 2024
From being used as a dog’s food bowl to being tossed off a deck into a pool, the Stanley Cup has never just been regalia to be stored in a team’s trophy case.
—Kaushik Sampath, Miami Herald, 26 June 2024
The Fall Guy David Leitch’s action-comedy mystery romance set in the world of stunt professionals is an act of pure movie love, mixing and matching genres while tossing off in-jokes and references to its illustrious (and not-so-illustrious) forebears.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 June 2024
Gunmen roamed the streets; members of Hamas were shot or simply disappeared; and at least one was tossed off the roof of a 12-story building.
—Dalia Hatuqa, Foreign Affairs, 25 Mar. 2017
Corsets, heavy wigs and other restrictive sartorial norms were tossed off to make way for flowing, transparent dresses, handbags as statement pieces and toucan feathers sewn into white crepe dresses — a look that Joséphine Bonaparte, future empress of France, wore to a ball.
—Dina Gachman, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2024
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Marty Roney, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
When public officials blithely toss off outrageous accusations such as those leveled against the Haitian immigrant community in Springfield, Ohio, the real-world consequences are all too real.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2024
He’s left a distinctive stamp on the orchestra’s sound in the years since, whether declaiming the beginning of Mahler 5 with a preacher’s conviction or, as in a recent Ravinia concert, tossing off a ragtime solo with waggish virtuosity.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2024
She’s not appreciated at home, where her ailing mother Jean (Melanie Nicholls-King) can barely be coaxed off the couch without tossing off a combative word at her daughter.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 9 July 2024
From being used as a dog’s food bowl to being tossed off a deck into a pool, the Stanley Cup has never just been regalia to be stored in a team’s trophy case.
—Kaushik Sampath, Miami Herald, 26 June 2024
The Fall Guy David Leitch’s action-comedy mystery romance set in the world of stunt professionals is an act of pure movie love, mixing and matching genres while tossing off in-jokes and references to its illustrious (and not-so-illustrious) forebears.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 June 2024
Gunmen roamed the streets; members of Hamas were shot or simply disappeared; and at least one was tossed off the roof of a 12-story building.
—Dalia Hatuqa, Foreign Affairs, 25 Mar. 2017
Corsets, heavy wigs and other restrictive sartorial norms were tossed off to make way for flowing, transparent dresses, handbags as statement pieces and toucan feathers sewn into white crepe dresses — a look that Joséphine Bonaparte, future empress of France, wore to a ball.
—Dina Gachman, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2024
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“Toss off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/toss%20off. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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