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What (who) is toss-up - definition
toss-up
2004 FILM BY UĞUR YÜCEL
Yazı Tura; Tossup
(toss-ups)
If you say that it is a toss-up whether one thing will happen or another thing will happen, you mean that either result seems equally likely.
It's a toss-up whether oil prices will go up or down over the days ahead.
N-COUNT: usu a N in sing, oft N wh, N between pl-n
toss-up
2004 FILM BY UĞUR YÜCEL
Yazı Tura; Tossup
¦ noun informal
1. the tossing of a coin to make a choice.
2. a situation in which any of two or more outcomes or options is equally possible.
toss
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Tossed; Tossing; Toss (film); Töss (disambiguation); Tosses; Toss (disambiguation)
¦ verb
1. throw lightly or casually.
(of a horse) throw (a rider) off its back.
throw (a coin) into the air so as to make a choice, based on which side of the coin faces uppermost when it lands.
2. move from side to side or back and forth.
jerk (one's head or hair) sharply backwards.
shake or turn (food) in a liquid, so as to coat it lightly.
3. (toss something off) drink something rapidly or all at once.
produce something rapidly or without thought or effort.
4. (toss oneself/someone off or toss off) Brit. vulgar slang masturbate.
¦ noun an act of tossing.
Phrases
give (or care) a toss [usu. with negative] Brit. informal care at all.
take a toss fall off a horse.
toss one's cookies N. Amer. informal vomit.
Origin
C16: of unknown origin.
Examples of use of toss-up
1. It‘s a toss up between Tony Bennett and Celine Dion.
2. Eric Croft in a race the Cook Political Report calls a toss–up.
3. But DeWine‘s race has turned from a toss–up to one favoring his rival, Rep.
4. Mary Landrieu (La.) '4;ż is considered in a toss–up race.
5. My dream ticket is Kucinich for president and a toss up between Clinton, Obama and Edwards for vice.