chuck

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chuck1 informal

▶verb

• 1 throw carelessly or casually.

  ■ (chuck something away/out) throw something away.

  ■ (chuck someone out) force someone to leave a building.

• 2 end a relationship with (a partner).

  ■ (usu. chuck something in) give up.

• 3 (chuck up) vomit.

▶noun (the chuck) Brit. a dismissal or rejection.

– phrases
chuck it down rain heavily.

– derivatives
chucker noun.

– origin C17: from chuck2.

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chuck2

▶verb touch (someone) playfully under the chin. ▶noun a playful touch under the chin.

– origin C17: prob. from OFr. chuquer, later choquer ‘to knock, bump’.

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chuck3

▶noun

• 1 a device for holding a workpiece in a lathe or a tool in a drill.

• 2 (also chuck steak) a cut of beef extending from the neck to the ribs.

– origin C17, as a var. of chock; see also chunk1.

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chuck4

▶noun N. English informal used as a familiar form of address.

– origin C16: alt. of chick1.