TOSS-UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does toss-up mean? 

• TOSS-UP (noun)
  The noun TOSS-UP has 1 sense:

1. an unpredictable phenomenon

  Familiarity information: TOSS-UP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOSS-UP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An unpredictable phenomenon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

even chance; toss-up; tossup

Context example:

it's a toss-up whether he will win or lose

Hypernyms ("toss-up" is a kind of...):

chance; fortune; hazard; luck (an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another)

 Context examples 

The Professor was very patient with me, but it must have been torment to him, and now and then he'd look at me with such an expression of mild despair that it was a toss-up with me whether to laugh or cry.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)