"toss off" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-toss off.ogg [Australia] Forms: tosses off [present, singular, third-person], tossing off [participle, present], tossed off [participle, past], tossed off [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} toss off (third-person singular simple present tosses off, present participle tossing off, simple past and past participle tossed off)
  1. (transitive) To drink up rapidly. Tags: transitive Translations (to drink up rapidly): heittää huiviin (Finnish), nakata naamaan (Finnish), stjälpa (Swedish), svepa (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-toss_off-en-verb-4kYdsH2s Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (off) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 71 7 17 5 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (off): 60 11 20 9 Disambiguation of 'to drink up rapidly': 95 2 2 1
  2. (transitive) To assemble hastily. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-toss_off-en-verb-6Rl5zhJA
  3. (British, vulgar, slang, transitive, intransitive) To masturbate. Tags: British, intransitive, slang, transitive, vulgar Translations (to masturbate): vetää käteen (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-toss_off-en-verb-~E9p9hIT Categories (other): British English Disambiguation of 'to masturbate': 1 1 97 1
  4. (transitive) To deliver in an offhand manner. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-toss_off-en-verb-UhOZ~gH0

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for toss off meaning in English (3.4kB)

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