pitch-and-toss

American  

[pich-uhn-taws, -tos] / ˈpɪtʃ ənˈtɔs, -ˈtɒs /

noun

1. a game in which players toss coins at a mark, the person whose coin hits closest to the mark tossing all the coins in the air and winning all those that come down heads up.

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pitch-and-toss British  

noun

1. a game of skill and chance in which the player who pitches a coin nearest to a mark has the first chance to toss all the coins, winning those that land heads up

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Etymology

Origin of pitch-and-toss

First recorded in 1800–10

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

pitch-and-toss

They invite me to play pitch-and-toss, but they look pretty good and I decide that claiming any losses on expenses might prove difficult.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 24, 2010

Across town, in the Ringland shopping centre, a blasted concrete nightmare that makes John Frost Square look like the Champs-Élysées, four youths are playing pitch-and-toss with pound coins – much more Ringland's game than golf.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 24, 2010

Kipling's instructions are clear enough: ;'If you can make one heap of all your winnings;/ And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,/ And lose, and start again at your beginnings .

From Time Magazine Archive

‘It was over about five minutes before you came in,’ replied that luminary pleasantly, as he played at an invisible game of pitch-and-toss with some half-sovereigns in his pocket. 

From The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy

If you have not seen one of these small craft riding through a gale, you can have no idea of the way in which wind and waves play pitch-and-toss with them in foul weather.

From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. by James Edward Parrott