toss out

English

Verb

toss out (third-person singular simple present tosses out, present participle tossing out, simple past and past participle tossed out)

1. (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.