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Toss vs. Boss — What's the Difference?

Toss vs. Boss — What's the Difference?

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Toss

To throw lightly or casually or with a sudden jerk
Tossed the shirt on the floor.

Boss

A person who is in charge of a worker or organization
Union bosses
Her boss offered her a promotion

Toss

To throw or propel upward
The bull tossed him over the fence.

Boss

A stud on the centre of a shield.

Toss

To throw or propel to the ground
The horse tossed its rider.
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Boss

A large mass of igneous rock protruding through other strata.

Toss

To cause to move from side to side or up and down
Boats that were tossed by the storm.

Boss

A cow.

Toss

To move or lift (the head) with a sudden motion.

Boss

Give (someone) orders in a domineering manner
You're always bossing us about

Toss

To mix (food) lightly so as to cover with dressing or sauce
Toss a salad.

Boss

Excellent; outstanding
She's a real boss chick

Toss

To discuss informally; bandy
Tossed the idea around.

Boss

An employer or supervisor.

Toss

To flip (coins) in order to decide an issue.

Boss

One who makes decisions or exercises authority.

Toss

To flip coins with
I'll toss you to see who goes first.

Boss

A professional politician who controls a party or a political machine.

Toss

To put in a given position, condition, or situation
Tossed the suspect in jail.

Boss

A circular protuberance or knoblike swelling, as on the horns of certain animals.

Toss

To throw away; discard
I tossed the newspaper after reading it.

Boss

A raised area used as ornamentation.

Toss

To disqualify or eject
The starter was tossed for throwing illegal pitches.

Boss

(Architecture) A raised ornament, such as one at the intersection of the ribs in a vaulted roof.

Toss

To be thrown here and there; be flung to and fro or up and down
The canoe tossed about on the waves.

Boss

An enlarged part of a shaft to which another shaft is coupled or to which a wheel or gear is keyed.

Toss

To move about restlessly; twist and turn
Toss in one's sleep.

Boss

A hub, especially of a propeller.

Toss

To flip a coin to decide an issue.

Boss

A cow or calf.

Toss

The act of tossing something
The toss of a hat.

Boss

To give orders to, especially in an arrogant or domineering manner
Bossing us around.

Toss

The distance that something is or can be tossed.

Boss

To emboss.

Toss

An abrupt upward movement, as of the head.

Boss

First-rate; topnotch.

Toss

A flipping of a coin to decide an issue
The home team won the toss and elected to receive.

Boss

A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor.

Toss

A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.

Boss

A person in charge of a business or company.
Chat turned to whisper when the boss entered the conference room.
My boss complains that I'm always late to work.

Toss

The coin toss before a cricket match in order to decide who bats first, or before a football match in order to decide the direction of play.

Boss

A leader, the head of an organized group or team.
They named him boss because he had good leadership skills.

Toss

A haughty throwing up of the head.

Boss

The head of a political party in a given region or district.
He is the Republican boss in Kentucky.

Toss

(British slang) A jot, in the phrase 'give a toss'.
I couldn't give a toss about her.

Boss

A term of address to a man.
Yes, boss.

Toss

(British slang) A state of agitation; commotion.

Boss

(video games) An enemy, often at the end of a level, that is particularly challenging and must be beaten in order to progress.

Toss

Concern or consideration.
I don't give a toss.

Boss

(humorous) Wife.
There's no olive oil; will sunflower oil do? — I'll have to run that by the boss.

Toss

A measure of sprats.

Boss

A swelling, lump or protuberance in an animal, person or object.

Toss

To throw with an initial upward direction.
Toss it over here!

Boss

(geology) A lump-like mass of rock, especially one projecting through a stratum of different rock.

Toss

To lift with a sudden or violent motion.
To toss the head

Boss

A convex protuberance in hammered work, especially the rounded projection in the centre of a shield.

Toss

To agitate; to make restless.

Boss

(mechanics) A protrusion, frequently a cylinder of material that extends beyond a hole.

Toss

To subject to trials; to harass.

Boss

(architectural element) A knob or projection, usually at the intersection of ribs in a vault.

Toss

To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.
We should toss for it.
I'll toss you for it.

Boss

(archery) A target block, made of foam but historically made of hay bales, to which a target face is attached.

Toss

To discard; to throw away.
I don't need it any more; you can just toss it.

Boss

A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.

Toss

To stir or mix (a salad).
To toss a salad; a tossed salad.

Boss

A head or reservoir of water.

Toss

(British slang) To masturbate

Boss

(obsolete) A hassock or small seat, especially made from a bundle of straw.

Toss

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

Boss

(transitive) To exercise authoritative control over; to tell (someone) what to do, often repeatedly.

Toss

(intransitive) To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.
Tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep

Boss

(transitive) To decorate with bosses; to emboss.

Toss

(intransitive) To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean, or as a ship in heavy seas.

Boss

Of excellent quality, first-rate.
That is a boss Zefron poster.

Toss

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

Boss

Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood.

Toss

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

Boss

A protuberant ornament on any work, either of different material from that of the work or of the same, as upon a buckler or bridle; a stud; a knob; the central projection of a shield. See Umbilicus.

Toss

(British slang) To drink in large draughts; to gulp.

Boss

A projecting ornament placed at the intersection of the ribs of ceilings, whether vaulted or flat, and in other situations.

Toss

To vomit.

Boss

A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.

Toss

To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.

Boss

The enlarged part of a shaft, on which a wheel is keyed, or at the end, where it is coupled to another.

Toss

To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head.
He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me,He would not stay.

Boss

A head or reservoir of water.

Toss

To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm.
We being exceedingly tossed with a tempest.

Boss

A master workman or superintendent; a director or manager; a political dictator.

Toss

To agitate; to make restless.
Calm region once,And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.

Boss

To ornament with bosses; to stud.

Toss

Hence, to try; to harass.
Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men.

Boss

A person who exercises control over workers;
If you want to leave early you have to ask the foreman

Toss

To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar.

Boss

A person responsible for hiring workers;
The boss hired three more men for the new job

Toss

To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to fling.
To toss and fling, and to be restless, only frets and enrages our pain.

Boss

A person who exercises control and makes decisions;
He is his own boss now

Toss

To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean.

Boss

A leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments;
Party bosses have a reputation for corruption

Toss

A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as, the toss of a ball.

Boss

A circular rounded projection or protuberance

Toss

A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk.

Boss

Raise in a relief;
Embossed stationary

Toss

The act of flipping a coin

Boss

Exceptionally good;
A boss hand at carpentry
His brag cornfield

Toss

(sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team;
The pass was fumbled

Toss

An abrupt movement;
A toss of his head

Toss

Throw or toss with a light motion;
Flip me the beachball
Toss me newspaper

Toss

Lightly throw to see which side comes up;
I don't know what to do--I may as well flip a coin!

Toss

Throw carelessly;
Chuck the ball

Toss

Move or stir about violently;
The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed

Toss

Throw or cast away;
Put away your worries

Toss

Agitate;
Toss the salad

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