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Definition chuck

Etymology 1

Variant of chock.

Noun

chuck (countable and uncountable, plural chucks)

  1. (cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
  2. (US, slang, dated) Food.
  3. (mechanical engineering) 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

chuck (third-person singular simple present chucks, present participle chucking, simple past and past participle chucked)

  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.

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic dialect term for chicken, imitative of a hen's cluck.

Noun

chuck (plural chucks)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) A chicken, a hen.
  2. A clucking sound.
  3. (slang) A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
Verb

chuck (third-person singular simple present chucks, present participle chucking, simple past and past participle chucked)

  1. To make a clucking sound.
  2. To call, as a hen her chickens.

Etymology 3

Noun

chuck (plural chucks)

  1. A gentle touch or tap.
  2. (informal) A casual throw.
  3. (cricket, informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
  4. (slang) An act or instance of vomiting.
Verb

chuck (third-person singular simple present chucks, present participle chucking, simple past and past participle chucked)

  1. To touch or tap gently.
  2. (transitive, informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
  3. (intransitive, cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
  4. (transitive, informal) To discard, to throw away.
  5. (transitive, informal) To jilt; to dump.
  6. (intransitive, slang) To vomit.
  7. (South Africa, slang, intransitive) To leave; to depart; to bounce.
  8. (obsolete) To chuckle; to laugh.

Etymology 3

From woodchuck.

Noun

chuck (plural chucks)

  1. Abbreviation of woodchuck.

Etymology 4

Noun

chuck (plural chucks)

  1. (Scotland) A small pebble.
  2. (Scotland, obsolete, slang, in the plural) Money.

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