What does the phrase 'tossing it off' mean to you?

[AintNobodyHereButUsReindeer]

Both me and my friend agree that it means wanking. However, both of our husbands (who have never met, and are from completely different areas of the country) use it to mean skiving off/doing nothing. As an example -
Me- "So what have you done at work today?"
DH- "Not a lot, just tossed it off for most of the day."
Me- "You... wanked, at work, all day?"
DH- "What?! No! I meant that I didn't do any work at work today!"

(Before people pile in and ask why he's lazing about at work, DH only does nothing at work because they don't give him anything to do)

So is it wanking, or skiving?

Tossing something off = doing it in a slapdash way
Tossing off a remark = speaking offhand without thinking
Tosser = tosspot = piss-artist (with the same connotation of 'useless' as wanker)

I always cringe a bit when I go to 'Tossed' for a salad. Their food is lovely but they have signs everywhere saying things like 'furious tossing going on'.

Is that necessary? It kind of takes away from the general ambiance

Originally SE Londoner,

Any kind of tossing is mechanical function:

Toss a salad= mix a sauce into the salad

Toss a person= perform mechanical sexual pleasure

I wouldn't use it on a daily basis at all. It's sloppy language, hence the vagueness.

@DecumusScotti I should hope he didn't! In his job he spends much of his day parked up in a van at the side of the road

Well, in his old job he did. Now he spends much of his nights parked up in a van at the side of the road.

Tossing off=wank
Tossing out = throwing something out
Tossed= wanker

Tossing it off = pratting about all day without actually getting anything of any importance done. (Yorkshire if that has any bearing)

Tossing it off means skiving to me too! Also from Yorkshire!

I've never heard the expression 'tossing it off' for skiving and I'm from Lancs.

What are you tossing off? What is 'it'?

Work usually

As a couple of pp's have said really in this instance it's the use of the word 'it' that denotes/changes the meaning of tossed. Having said that it's not a phrase I have heard, I am in the south east. The usual one I hear is skived off, or binned it off.

Wanking
Never heard it used as to skiving off(south east)

wanking or hand job on someone else

I’m from Lancs and have never heard it used for skiving. That would be dossing where I grew up.