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Chuck   /tʃək/   Listen
Chuck

verb
(past & past part. chucked; pres. part. chucking)
1.
Throw carelessly.  Synonym: toss.
2.
Throw away.  Synonym: ditch.
3.
Pat or squeeze fondly or playfully, especially under the chin.  Synonym: pat.
4.
Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth.  Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up.  "He purged continuously" , "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"  Antonym: keep down.
noun
1.
Informal terms for a meal.  Synonyms: chow, eats, grub.
2.
The part of a forequarter from the neck to the ribs and including the shoulder blade.
3.
A holding device consisting of adjustable jaws that center a workpiece in a lathe or center a tool in a drill.



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"Chuck" Quotes from Famous Books



... "my familiar risked his liberty to bring it, but he succeeded. Ha! ha! My precious Fancy, thou art the best of servants, and shalt have my best blood to reward thee to-morrow—thou shalt, my sweetheart, my chuck, my dandyprat. But hie thee back to Malkin Tower, and contrive that this lady may hear, as well as see, all ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth
... torrents tearing down the slopes of the occasional hills or mountains. These dried up river-beds furnished the only continuously hard surfaces we found on the Gobi; although even here we were sometimes brought up with a round turn in a chuck hole, with the ...
— Across Asia on a Bicycle • Thomas Gaskell Allen and William Lewis Sachtleben
... get a wrinkle, kid," replied the youth, who had permission to apply any pet name he pleased. "The stuff's mine, all right. And now it's yours. Unless you think I sneaked it. Then you can chuck it ...
— Winnie Childs - The Shop Girl • C. N. Williamson
... away," they all laughed, "and chuck them in her face! She has got you up in such a way as to make a regular old elf ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin
... unmusical voice but amid the sounds of hoofs and wheels, and the discords of the street? And the ordinary notes and calls of so many of the British birds, according to their biographers, are harsh and disagreeable; even the nightingale has an ugly, guttural "chuck." The missel-thrush has a harsh scream; the jay a note like "wrack," "wrack;" the fieldfare a rasping chatter; the blackbird, which is our robin cut in ebony, will sometimes crow like a cock and cackle like a hen; the ...
— Locusts and Wild Honey • John Burroughs


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