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English
Etymology
Deverbal from toss up.
Pronunciation
Noun
toss-up (plural toss-ups)
- (idiomatic) 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.
2013 January 11, Tom Shone, The Guardian:No longer is the best picture going to be a toss-up between that troika of national-historical heavies: Argo, Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty. Instead, a warm welcome back for Life of Pi, widely dismissed by many as "this year's Hugo" but this column's dark-horse pick from October.
- The toss of a coin used to decide some issue.
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Translations
a decision in which neither choice is clearly favorable or unfavorable, or for which the outcome does not matter
either of two outcomes that are equally likely
the toss of a coin used to decide some issue
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