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toss-up

noun

Etymology

Deverbal from toss up.

Definitions

  1. A decision in which neither choice is clearly favorable or unfavorable, or for which the…

    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.
    • But at the moment when everything was going so well, there came one of those unforeseeable chances that reduce even the most circumspectly arranged plots to the significance of a mere toss-up.

  2. 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.”

  3. The toss of a coin used to decide some issue.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A toss-up question.

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