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PRONUNCIATION:

(TOS-pot)

MEANING:

noun: 1. A drunkard. 2. An idiot.

ETYMOLOGY:

From the phrase to toss off (to drink rapidly). Earliest documented use: 1568.

USAGE:

"It's like a cast of tosspots who don't know their limit and then get into a car."
Tim Goodman: Television; The San Francisco Chronicle; Nov 2, 2007.

Also see, tosspot words. More examples here, here, and here.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. -Voltaire, philosopher and writer (1694-1778)

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