Antonyms for toss up
Grammar : Noun, verb |
Spell : taws, tos |
Phonetic Transcription : tɔs, tɒs |
- abstain
- agreement
- aim
- assurance
- bad fortune
- beginning
- breakthrough
- cause
- certainty
- commencement
- design
- determination
- disadvantage
- displace
- fact
- guard
- impossibility
- impossible
- improbability
- insurance
- law
- loss
- misfortune
- origin
- plan
- proof
- protection
- reality
- remove
- safeguard
- safety
- scheme
- source
- start
- sureness
- surety
- understand
- unfeasibility
- unlikelihood
Definition of toss up
Origin :- c.1500, possibly from a Scandinavian source (cf. dialectal Norwegian tossa "to strew, spread"). Related: Tossed; tossing. Food preparation sense (with reference to salad, etc.) is recorded from 1723. The noun meaning "an act of throwing" is first recorded 1650s. Tosspot "heavy drinker" is from 1560s. Toss-up "even matter" first recorded 1809, from earlier sense of "a flipping of a coin to arrive at a decision" (c.1700). Tosser as a term of contempt in British slang is recorded from 1977, probably from slang toss off "masturbate" (1969); cf. jerk (n.).
- As in likelihood : noun chance of something happening
- As in luck : noun chance
- As in odds : noun probability
- As in possibility : noun feasibility, likelihood; chance
- As in probability : noun likelihood of something happening
- As in standoff : noun draw, tie
- As in wager : noun money or something gambled
- As in sporting chance : noun good chance
- As in toss-up : noun even chance
- As in chance : noun fate, luck
- As in eventuality : noun something that probably will happen
- As in gamble : noun chance, speculation
- As in hazard : noun luck, chance
- As in bet : verb gamble
- As in chance : verb risk, endanger
- And to my mind, it is a toss up which will make the girl the happier—Mackenzie or Hawke.
- Extract from : « The Cryptogram » by William Murray Graydon
- It was just a toss up whether I became an Artist or an Auctioneer.
- Extract from : « The Gentle Art of Making Enemies » by James McNeill Whistler
- And to laugh about it, and toss up her goldpiece and catch it with her other hand!
- Extract from : « A Little Girl of Long Ago » by Amanda Millie Douglas
- Maybe I'll have to toss up a penny to find out which I'd better take.
- Extract from : « Carl and the Cotton Gin » by Sara Ware Bassett
- Then we'll toss up an' th' lucky man gets it to use as he wants.
- Extract from : « Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up » by Clarence Edward Mulford
- Will you be so obliging as to toss up a crown-piece, while I call?'
- Extract from : « The Purcell Papers » by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- It was a toss up at one time between that and the skipping-rope.
- Extract from : « The Prude's Progress » by Jerome K. Jerome
- Now, I will toss up this pebble, and when it strikes the surface of the water we will fire.
- Extract from : « Archibald Malmaison » by Julian Hawthorne
- At length it was agreed they should toss up which should make the attempt.
- Extract from : « The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley » by Bertram Mitford
- It ain't worth while, gentlemen, to toss up for positions, is it?
- Extract from : « The Humors of Falconbridge » by Jonathan F. Kelley
Synonyms for toss up
- accident
- achievability
- action
- advantage
- adventure
- aftereffect
- aftermath
- ante
- anticipation
- any case
- attainableness
- attempt
- bad luck
- balance
- bet
- betting proposition
- break
- buy in on
- case
- cast
- cast lots
- casualty
- challenge
- chance
- chances
- chunk
- circumstance
- coin flip
- coincidence
- conceivability
- consequence
- contingency
- credibility
- dead heat
- deadlock
- destination
- destiny
- dice
- direction
- doom
- draw
- draw lots
- drawn battle
- dynamite
- effect
- even break
- even chance
- even game
- event
- expectation
- fair shake
- fate
- favor
- feasibility
- fifty-fifty
- fighting chance
- fling
- flip of the coin
- fluke
- flyer
- fortuity
- fortune
- future
- gamble
- gambler's chance
- game
- go
- go out on a limb
- go-down
- goings-on
- good chance
- good luck
- good possibility
- handle
- hap
- haphazard
- happening
- happenstance
- have a fling at
- hazard
- hazard of the die
- heads or tails
- hedge
- hit
- hope
- hunch
- hundred-to-one
- impasse
- in the cards
- incident
- instance
- issue
- jeopardize
- kismet
- lay down
- lay odds
- leap
- level
- liability
- likelihood
- likeliness
- long shot
- lot
- lottery
- luck of the draw
- luck out
- lucky break
- lucky hit
- matter of chance
- Mexican standoff
- misfortune
- mishap
- occasion
- occurrence
- odds
- odds on
- opportunity
- outcome
- outside chance
- parlay
- peradventure
- peril
- plausibility
- play
- play against
- play for
- play the ponies
- play with fire
- pledge
- plunge
- pony up
- possibility
- pot
- potentiality
- practicability
- prayer
- presumption
- probability
- promise
- prospect
- providence
- put
- put eggs in one basket
- put it on the line
- put money on
- raffle
- reasonableness
- result
- risk
- risky business
- roll the dice
- run the risk
- sequel
- set
- shot
- shot at
- shot in the dark
- skate on thin ice
- snowball's chance
- spec
- speculate
- stab
- stake
- stalemate
- stick one's neck out
- stroke of luck
- strong possibility
- superiority
- take shot in the dark
- tempt fate
- tempt fortune
- tendency
- throw of the dice
- tie
- toss of the coin
- toss up
- toss-up
- trend
- trust
- try
- turn of the cards
- uncertainty
- unforeseen event
- upshot
- venture
- wager
- wash
- way the ball bounces
- way the cookie crumbles
- wheel of fortune
- wildcat
- workableness
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