toss out
English
Verb
toss out (third-person singular simple present tosses out, present participle tossing out, simple past and past participle tossed out)
- (transitive, informal) To throw away; to get rid of; to dispose of (something, especially food that has gone bad).
- 2015, Dawn Lerman, My Fat Dad: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Family, with Recipes:
- My grandmother said being organized led to success, so I set out to turn our fridge into a liquid dieter's paradise. First was detoxing the kitchen. I tossed out everything that would lead to temptation, like the leftover candy from Halloween, as well as everything that was expired and rotten.
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