Pronunciations (2)
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/t͡ʃʌk/
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/t͡ʃʊk/
Pronunciation notes
- Ireland
- Northern-England
Noun
Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
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- Uncountable
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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.
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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 either be attached or separated and packaged with the chucks.
Food.
Usage- US usage
- Countable
- Dated
- Slang
- Uncountable
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“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.”
A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.
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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 answer so well, owing to the surface of the iron offering less resistance to the work turning within it. This, perhaps, might be remedied by roughing; but I think the chuck is much better in wood, as it can be made by any common turner at a trifling expense, and possesses more strength than can possibly be required.
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.
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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 filament to be spliced. If it has chucks, they are typically either clamping chucks or vacuum chucks.
The first step in preparing a test specimen with the FlexPrepᵀᴹ is to secure the gyratory specimen in the chuck of the machine.
Verb
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.
Noun
A chicken, a hen.
Usage- dialectal
- Obsolete
A clucking sound.
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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.
A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
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Are you all right, chuck?
Pray, chuck, come hither.
Verb
To make a clucking sound.
To call, as a hen her chickens.
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Then crowing clapped his wing, th'appointed call To chuck his wives together in the hall.
To chuckle; to laugh.
Usage- Obsolete
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Who would not chuck to see such pleasing sport. To see such troupes of gallants still resort unto Cornutos shop.
Noun
A gentle touch or tap.
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She gave him an affectionate chuck under the chin.
A casual throw.
Usage- Informal
A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
Usage- Informal
An act or instance of vomiting.
Usage- Slang
On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc., the muting of a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
Verb
To playfully give a light touch, stroke, tap, etc., to someone, especially under the chin.
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[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 ask me if I thought I could love an old Fellow who would deny me nothing—didn't you?
‘Oh, my oath,’ Dan said, and ‘chucked’ Mrs. Brown familiarly under the chin. ‘Get along wid you!’ she cried, jumping back and colouring up.
To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
Usage- Informal
- Transitive
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Chuck that magazine to me, would you?
To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
Usage- Intransitive
To discard, to throw away.
Usage- Informal
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This food's gone off - you'd better chuck it.
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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 satanic douceur. But it is hard to part with money, and Irons, though he still looked cowed and unhappy, put the money into his breeches' pocket, and he made a queer bow […]
To jilt; to dump.
Usage- Informal
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She's chucked me for another man!
To give up; to stop doing; to quit.
Usage- Dated
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"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."
To vomit.
Usage- Intransitive
- Slang
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To leave; to depart; to bounce.
Usage- South-Africa
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Let's chuck.
On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
Noun
A small pebble.
Usage- Scotland
Money.
Usage- Scotland
- in-plural
- Obsolete
- Slang
Noun
A pair of nunchaku, especially when using two.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
Noun
informal terms for a meal
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the part of a forequarter from the neck to the ribs and including the shoulder blade
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a holding device consisting of adjustable jaws that center a workpiece in a lathe or center a tool in a drill
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Verb
throw carelessly
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chuck the ball
throw away
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Chuck these old notes
pat or squeeze fondly or playfully, especially under the chin
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eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
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After drinking too much, the students vomited
He purged continuously
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The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night