TOSSED (DOWN OR OFF) Synonyms: 29 Similar Words

tossed (down or off)

verb

past tense of toss (down or off)

as in sipped

to swallow in liquid form tossed off the last of the medicine

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It is said that Salvador Dali, Marilyn Monroe and Ernest Hemingway are among the luminaries who have sipped drinks at the King Cole Bar and Salon.

— Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
As the two young women talked, the thirty-five-year-old man sipped the icemelt at the bottom of his glass.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026

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The company behind the beer Sam Adams told NBC Boston its Boston Taproom ran out of Samuel Adams Boston Lager one weekend because of the Tartan Army, which drank four times as much beer as is consumed on a typical four-day weekend.

— Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 19 July 2026
Instead, James drank wine, entertained recruiting pitches and served up a whole lot of nothing.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 July 2026

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This dark ability is expressed by the image of people getting knocked back, one after another, as if by a magnetic field, as the villain’s telepathic abilities jump from one host to the next.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 July 2026
Once Real Madrid members voted him in again, Perez kept his word by launching a tabling said amount for Julian Alvarez, which was knocked back by Atletico Madrid.

— Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026

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