toss-up
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toss-up
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Deverbal from toss up, suggesting tossing a coin.
noun toss-ups · tossup
- A decision in which neither choice is clearly favorable or unfavorable, or for which the outcome does not matter. It's really a toss-up between the red skirt with blue stripes and the blue skirt with red stripes. They both look good and fit well.
- Either of two outcomes that are equally likely. “He’ll do,” said the Doctor, quietly. “It must have been a toss-up all through the night. ’Think you’re to be congratulated on this case.”
- The toss of a coin used to decide some issue.
- A toss-up question.
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noun a decision in which neither choice is clearly favorable or unfavorable, or for which the outcome does not matter
| Italiano | incerto |
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noun either of two outcomes that are equally likely
| Español | sorteamiento, sorteo, posibilidades igualmente probables, posibilidades igual de probables, probabilidades iguales / igualadas |
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@misc{toss_up_2026,
title = {toss-up},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/toss-up},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
