Verb

(head)

(toss)

Verb

To throw with an initial upward direction.

Toss it over here!

To lift with a sudden or violent motion.

to toss the head

* Addison

He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me, / He would not stay.

To agitate; to make restless.

* Milton

Calm region once, / And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.

To subject to trials; to harass.

* Herbert

Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men.

To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.

I'll toss you for it.

To discard: to toss out

''I don't need it anymore, you can just toss it.

To stir or mix (a salad).

to toss''' a salad; a '''tossed salad.

(British, vulgar, slang) To masturbate

(informal) To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables or evidence of a crime.

"Someone tossed just his living room and bedroom." / "They probably found what they were looking for."

* 2003 , Joseph Wambaugh, Fire Lover , p. 258:

John Orr had occasion to complain in writing to the senior supervisor that his Playboy and Penthouse magazines had been stolen by deputies. And he believed that was what prompted a random search of his cell for contraband. He was stripped, handcuffed, and forced to watch as they tossed his cell .

* 2009 , , Red Dragon :

Rankin and Willingham, when they tossed his cell , they took Polaroids so they could get everything back in place.

* 2011 , Linda Howard, Kill and Tell: A Novel :

Hayes had watched him toss a room before. He had tapped walls, gotten down on his hands and knees and studied the floor, inspected books and lamps and bric-abrac.

To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.

tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep

To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean.

(Shakespeare)

(obsolete) To keep in play; to tumble over.

to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar

(Ascham)

To peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat.

Verb

(head)

(hurl)

Verb

To throw (something) with force.

* {{quote-news

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* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV

I was standing on the edge of the conning-tower, when a heavy palm suddenly struck me between the shoulders and hurled me forward into space. The drop to the triangular deck forward of the conning-tower might easily have broken a leg for me, or I might have slipped off onto the deck and rolled overboard; but fate was upon my side, as I was only slightly bruised.

* 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5

Tarzan on his part never lost an opportunity to show that he fully reciprocated his foster father's sentiments, and whenever he could safely annoy him or make faces at him or hurl insults upon him from the safety of his mother's arms, or the slender branches of the higher trees, he did so.

To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target.

The gangs hurled abuse at each other.

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, year=1984 , title=New International Version of the Bible , section=Mark 15:29-30 , passage=Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, “So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, come down from the cross and save yourself!"}}

To participate in the sport of hurling.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=August 3 , author=Donnchadh Boyle , title=Egan targets Rebel success to rescue poor season , work=Irish Independent citation , page= , passage=Their cause was helped after the senior footballers were unexpectedly dumped out of the running for the Sam Maguire, meaning Aidan Walsh is available to hurl full-time with the young Rebels -- Walsh scored 1-1 in the semi-final victory over reigning All-Ireland champions Tipperary.}}

(slang) To vomit.

Pass me the bucket; I've got to hurl .

(obsolete) To twist or turn.

* Hooker

hurled or crooked feet