heads or tails

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Noun

heads or tails

1. (idiomatic) The practice of flipping a coin in the air, to choose between two alternatives based on which side lands face up.

Translations

heads or tails

• Arabic: طُرَّةٌ أَم نَقْشٌ (ṭurratun ʔam naqšun), طُرَّةٌ أَو نَقْشٌ (ṭurratun ʔaw naqšun)
• Armenian: գիր-ղուշ (gir-ġuš)
• Breton: pennoù pe lostoù
• Bulgarian: ези́ или́ тура́ (ezí ilí turá)
• Catalan: a cara o creu
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (toss a coin) 擲硬幣／掷硬币 (zhì yìngbì), 擲毫／掷毫 (zhì háo)

• Czech: panna nebo orel
• Danish: plat eller krone
• Dutch: kruis of munt, kop of munt
• Esperanto: monerumado
• Finnish: kolikonheitto (fi), lantinheitto, kruuna vai klaava
• French: pile ou face (fr)
• German: Kopf oder Zahl
• Greek: κορώνα ή γράμματα (koróna í grámmata)
• Hebrew: עֵץ אוֹ פָּלִי (he) (étz ó páli)
• Hungarian: fej vagy írás
• Italian: testa o croce f
• Japanese: コイントス (koin tosu)
• Korean: 앞이야 뒤야 (apiya dwiya)
• Latvian: cipars vai ģerbonis
• Lithuanian: herbas arba skaičius
• Macedonian: глава или писмо (glava ili pismo)
• Norwegian: krone eller mynt
• Polish: orzeł czy reszka
• Portuguese: cara ou coroa m
• Romanian: cap sau pajură
• Russian: орля́нка (ru) f (orljánka), орёл и́ли ре́шка (orjól íli réška)
• Spanish: águila o sol (Mexico), cara o ceca (Argentina), cara o corona (El Salvador), cara o cruz (es) (especially Spain), cara o escudo (Cuba, Guatemala), cara o número (Uruguay), cara o sello (es) (Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Venezuela), escudo o corona (Costa Rica)
• Swedish: krona eller klave, singla slant
• Tagalog: kara-krus
• Turkish: yazı tura (tr)
• Welsh: tu blaen ynteu tu chwith, gwlybyn ynte sychyn (Southwest)

See also

• make heads or tails of
• heads or harps
• toss a coin

Further reading

• Coin flipping on Wikipedia.Wikipedia