toss off
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[edit]toss off (third-person singular simple present tosses off, present participle tossing off, simple past and past participle tossed off)
- (transitive) To drink up rapidly.
- Let me toss off this beer first.
- (transitive) To assemble hastily.
- I tossed off a letter to the local council.
- (British, vulgar, slang, transitive, intransitive) To masturbate.
- (transitive) To deliver in an offhand manner.
- 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[1]:
- 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