/t͡ʃʌk/, /t͡ʃʊk/
- countable, uncountableMeat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
“Arm chucks represent approximately 54% of the beef forequarters.”
“Often, pieces of the chuck are sold boneless as flat chunks of meat or rolled and tied.”
“The chucks are that portion of foresaddle remaining after excluding the hotel rack and plate portions of the breast as described in Item No. 306. The veal foreshanks (Item No. 312) and brisket may eit”
- US, countable, dated, slang, uncountableFood.
““Hambone, how's for chuck?”
Hambone removed pipe from mouth, slowly. “Wal, I reckon I still got a few whistleberries left. Some sonofabitch stew mabbe. A few shot biscuits.””
- countable, uncountableA mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.
“1824, Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain), Transactions, Volume 42, page 88,
I have had a chuck of this kind made in brass with the cones of iron, but it is cumbrous and expensive, and does not answ”
“Iron and steel in contact with magnets retain some of the magnetism, which is sometimes more or less of a nuisance in getting small work off the chucks.”
“2003, Julie K. Petersen, “chuck”, entry in Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary, page 181,
A fiber optic splicing device may be equipped with V-grooves or chucks to hold the two pieces of fiber optic f”
- dialectal, obsoleteA chicken, a hen.
- A clucking sound.
“The call always starts with a whine, to which the males add from 0 to 6 chucks. In choice tests, females approach calls that contain chucks in preference to calls that contain no chucks.”
- slangA friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
“Are you all right, chuck?”
“Pray, chuck, come hither.”
- A gentle touch or tap.
“She gave him an affectionate chuck under the chin.”
- informalA casual throw.
- informalA throw, an incorrect bowling action.
- slangAn act or instance of vomiting.
- On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc., the muting of a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
- abbreviation, alt-ofAbbreviation of woodchuck.
“1976 August, Sylvia Bashline, Woodchucks Are Tablefare Too, Field & Stream, page 50,
Chucks are plentiful, and most farmers are glad to have the incurable diggers kept at tolerable population levels. ”
- ScotlandA small pebble.
- Scotland, in-plural, obsolete, slangMoney.
- informal, plural-normallya Chuck Taylor All-Stars shoe.
“Got Chucks on with Saint Laurent / Gotta kiss myself, I'm so pretty”
- 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.
- To make a clucking sound.
- To call, as a hen her chickens.
“Then crowing clapped his wing, th'appointed call
To chuck his wives together in the hall.”
- obsoleteTo chuckle; to laugh.
“Who would not chuck to see such pleasing sport.
To see such troupes of gallants still resort
unto Cornutos shop.”
- To touch or tap gently.
“[Y]ou look now as you did before we were married—when you used to walk with me under the Elms, and tell me stories of what a Gallant you were in your youth—and chuck me under the chin you would—and as”
- informal, transitiveTo throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
“Chuck that magazine to me, would you?”
- intransitiveTo throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
- informal, transitiveTo discard, to throw away.
“This food's gone off - you'd better chuck it.”
“When Dangerfield put the little roll in his hand, Irons looked suspicious and frightened, and balanced it in his palm, as if he had thoughts of chucking it from him, as though it were literally a sata”
- informal, transitiveTo jilt; to dump.
“She's chucked me for another man!”
- dated, informal, transitiveTo give up; to stop doing; to quit.
“"When he got religion old Joe stuck every penny away in the Savings Bank, and when he chucked religion he'd draw out the lot and go on a bender that landed him in the horrors, like as not."”
- intransitive, slangTo vomit.
- South-Africa, intransitive, slangTo leave; to depart; to bounce.
- On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
- A form of the male given name Charles, of mostly American usage.
“The digital ads open over a shot of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer, the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, while a narrator declares: “For years, it paralyzed Washington: Parti”
- Canada, slangThe city of Edmonton.
Formschucks(plural) · chucks(present, singular, third-person) · chucking(participle, present) · chucked(participle, past) · chucked(past) · chock(alternative, obsolete) · 'chuck(alternative) · chack(alternative, Scotland) · Chucks(plural)