toss off

present singular third person tosses off · participle present tossing off · participle past tossed off · past tossed off

1. datedtransitiveTo drink up rapidly.

   Let me toss off this beer first.

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   A mandrill baboon, at Wombwell's menagerie, was very partial to fermented liquors and ginger beer; the large dog-faced baboon, that died at the Tower in 1828, would toss off a pot of porter with great relish, and was such an excessive toper that he at last sunk under a confirmed dropsy; a young ruffed lemur, at the Paris Museum of Natural History, was partial to spirits; […]

   1844 March 16, “Partiality of animals for wine, spirits, &c.”, in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, volume 5 (New Series), number 11, page 164

   They drank the health of the Nestor of American poets, and the said Nestor thanked them in German, for all the speeches were in the German language. The beer was a very light tipple, and it seemed to me that one must toss off a good many pots of it before becoming tipsy. I am to go to a private dinner to-night, the last of the Taylor festivities.

   1883, Parke Godwin, quoting William Cullen Bryant, “Chapter 49: The last year: A.D. 1878”, in The Life and Works of William Cullen Bryant: A Biography of William Cullen Bryant, With Extracts From His Private Correspondence, volume 2, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 393

   Synonyms: throw back

2. transitiveTo assemble hastily.

   I tossed off a letter to the local council.

   Synonyms: fire off

3. UKambitransitiveslangvulgarTo masturbate.

   Synonyms: jerk off, abuse, bash one out, bate, beat it, beat off, crank one out, fap

4. transitiveTo deliver (a remark, suggestion, etc.) in an offhand manner.

   He tossed off a few platitudes and then ignored any further questions.

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   Tyrion tells him a great house (the Tyrells) has already been wiped out of history. “Don’t let it happen again.” But he says it like a trusted authority, a casual command, not taking the boy seriously. Basically, he tosses off the line, expecting that to be the end of the conversation

   2017 August 13, Brandon Nowalk, “Oldtown offers one last game-changing secret as Game Of Thrones goes behind enemy lines (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club