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uptoss en · NOUN
Etymology
From up- + toss.
Meanings
A tossing up.
You can see even the smallest animals, such as porcupines and ground hogs, over a mile away, and the first step of a bear, or the first uptoss of a deer's head is seen instantly. 1922, Charles Hallock, William A. Bruette, Forest and Stream:
Sometimes its sky line was broken by an uptoss from some one overpowering blast. 1917, Collier's: incorporating features of the American magazine:
That which is tossed up.
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uptoss en · VERB
Etymology
From up- + toss.
Meanings
(transitive) To toss up.
[…] and brasses reflective Gleam in the sun, and away to the clouds uptoss the refulgence: […] 1888, Virgil's Æneid:
(intransitive) To be tossed up.
The boat drew closer and closer, hurling along through the seething green like a thing alive, lifting and sending and uptossing across the huge-backed breakers, or disappearing behind them only to rush into sight again […] 1904, The Century: