English Explanatory Dictionary

chuck

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
  2. Food.
  3. A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.
verb
  1. To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning.
  2. To bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
noun
  1. A chicken, a hen.
  2. A clucking sound.
  3. A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
verb
  1. To make a clucking sound.
  2. To call, as a hen her chickens.
  3. To chuckle; to laugh.
noun
  1. A gentle touch or tap.
  2. A casual throw.
  3. A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
  4. An act or instance of vomiting.
  5. On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc., the muting of a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
verb
  1. To touch or tap gently.
  2. To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
  3. To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
  4. To discard, to throw away.
  5. To jilt; to dump.
  6. To give up; to stop doing; to quit.
  7. To vomit.
  8. To leave; to depart; to bounce.
  9. On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
noun
  1. Abbreviation of woodchuck.
noun
  1. A small pebble.
  2. Money.
noun
  1. A pair of nunchaku, especially when using two.
name
  1. A form of the male given name Charles, of mostly American usage.
noun
  1. a Chuck Taylor All-Stars shoe.
name
  1. The city of Edmonton.

Pronunciation

/t͡ʃʌk/ en-au-chuck.ogg /t͡ʃʊk/

Word forms

chuck chucks chucking chucked chock 'chuck chack

Etymology

Variant of chock.

Synonyms

fling hurl bung cast chuck chunk cook dash dump feck jerk heave hield hoy huck hurtle launch lob peck peg pick pitch precipitate project quoit shy slight skew sling thrill throw toss traject warp whang whip whop wing chuck out junk 86 bin can cast aside cast off cast away chuck away discard dispose of ditch get rid of jettison scrap shift throw aside throw away throw out trash throw up bait

Related words

chucks

Derived words

chuckable chuckhole chuck it chuck it in chuck it up chuck key chuck over chuck rib chuck steak chuck wagon fork chuck universal chuck chuck a charley chuck a dummy chuck-a-luck chuck and toss chuck a sickie chuck a spaz chuck a uey chuck away chuck a wobbly chuck down chucker chuck-farthing chuck-in chuck in chuck it down chuck off chuck one's toys out of the cot chuck one's toys out of the pram chuck out chuck the deuces chuck up fuck and chuck upchuck rockchuck chuckie-stone Chuck Cunningham syndrome
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