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heads or tails

Noun

Meaning

heads or tails

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

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Many best books lists are comprised of tomes so dense and impenetrable that it requires a Master's degree in literature to make heads or tails of them. Source: Internet

I am not smart enough to make heads or tails of authors such as David Foster Wallace. Source: Internet

Our observation can be put into a contingency table with rows corresponding to the coin and columns corresponding to heads or tails. Source: Internet

Start of play At the beginning of a match, an official tosses a coin and allows the captain of the visiting team call heads or tails. Source: Internet

The elements of the contingency table will be the number of times the coin for that row came up heads or tails. Source: Internet

The participants also exhibited the gambler's fallacy, with their selection of either heads or tails decreasing after noticing a streak of that outcome. Source: Internet

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