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Definition chuck
Etymology 1
Variant of chock.
Noun
chuck (countable and uncountable, plural chucks)
- (cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
- (US, slang, dated) Food.
- (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)
- To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning.
- 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)
- (dialectal, obsolete) A chicken, a hen.
- A clucking sound.
- (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)
- To make a clucking sound.
- To call, as a hen her chickens.
Etymology 3
Noun
chuck (plural chucks)
- A gentle touch or tap.
- (informal) A casual throw.
- (cricket, informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
- (slang) An act or instance of vomiting.
Verb
chuck (third-person singular simple present chucks, present participle chucking, simple past and past participle chucked)
- To touch or tap gently.
- (transitive, informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
- (intransitive, cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
- (transitive, informal) To discard, to throw away.
- (transitive, informal) To jilt; to dump.
- (intransitive, slang) To vomit.
- (South Africa, slang, intransitive) To leave; to depart; to bounce.
- (obsolete) To chuckle; to laugh.
Etymology 3
From woodchuck.
Noun
chuck (plural chucks)
- Abbreviation of woodchuck.
Etymology 4
Noun
chuck (plural chucks)
- (Scotland) A small pebble.
- (Scotland, obsolete, slang, in the plural) Money.
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