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Princeton's WordNet

  1. tossup, toss-up, even chancenoun

    an unpredictable phenomenon

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

Wiktionary

  1. toss-upnoun

    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.

  2. toss-upnoun

    Either of two outcomes that are equally likely.

Wikipedia

  1. Toss-Up

    Toss-Up (Turkish: Yazı Tura) is a 2004 Turkish drama film, produced, written and directed by Uğur Yücel, starring Kenan İmirzalıoğlu and Olgun Şimşek as two soldiers return home from their military service in southeastern Turkey with disabilities. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on September 24, 2004 (2004-09-24), won a record 11 awards at the 41st Antalya "Golden Orange" International Film Festival including the Golden Orange for Best Film.

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  1. toss-up

    A toss-up is a situation or outcome that is uncertain or unpredictable, essentially being equally capable of being decided in multiple ways. It's similar to flipping a coin where both outcomes, heads or tails, have an equal chance of happening.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of toss-up in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of toss-up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of toss-up in a Sentence

  1. Daron Shaw:

    Hillary Clinton starts off with an advantage, but as always, if you look at the toss-up states, this thing is going to be much more competitive, I think, than maybe a lot of us thought.

  2. Ben Spangenberg:

    It's still a big toss-up for me right now, it could go Hillary Clinton, it could go Bernie, it could go Rubio, it could go Kasich, it could go Bush.

  3. Elvis Picardo:

    The whole rebound in energy and commodities is still very much a toss-up, the fundamentals are very mixed and there are just so many moving parts.

  4. Charles Krauthammer:

    If the race is a three way race, then it really is a toss-up, who of the top three will get it, if it remains a six man race [or] a five man race that means that Trump will romp all the way to the nomination, because he will dominate if the so-called establishment vote is split.

  5. Thane Stenner:

    There is some edginess in the market, it's a coin toss-up as to how the Greeks are going to vote.


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