Chuck

noun chucks

1. countable, uncountable Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal. Arm chucks represent approximately 54% of the beef forequarters.
2. US, countable, dated, slang, uncountable Food. “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.”
3. countable, uncountable A 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 answer so well, owing to the surface of the iron offering less resistance to the work turning within it.

verb chucks · chucking · 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.

noun chucks

1. dialectal, obsolete A chicken, a hen.
2. 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.
3. slang A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment. Are you all right, chuck?

verb chucks · chucking · chucked

1. To make a clucking sound.
2. To call, as a hen her chickens. Then crowing clapped his wing, th'appointed call To chuck his wives together in the hall.
3. obsolete To chuckle; to laugh. Who would not chuck to see such pleasing sport. To see such troupes of gallants still resort unto Cornutos shop.

noun chucks · chock

1. A gentle touch or tap. She gave him an affectionate chuck under the chin.
2. informal A casual throw.
3. informal A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
4. slang An act or instance of vomiting.
5. On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc., the muting of a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.

verb chucks · chucking · chucked · chock

1. To playfully give a light touch, stroke, tap, etc., to someone, especially under the chin. [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?
2. informal, transitive To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner. Chuck that magazine to me, would you?
3. intransitive To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
4. informal, transitive To discard, to throw away. This food's gone off - you'd better chuck it.
5. informal, transitive To jilt; to dump. She's chucked me for another man!
6. dated, informal, transitive To 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."
7. intransitive, slang To vomit.
8. South Africa, intransitive, slang To leave; to depart; to bounce. Let's chuck.
9. On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.

noun chucks · 'chuck

1. abbreviation Abbreviation of woodchuck.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. […] For some reason, my family didn′t eat ′chucks. Few families in the area did.

noun chucks · chack

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

Similar: chuckie, chucky, chuckstone, chuckiestone

noun chucks

1. countable, uncountable A pair of nunchaku, especially when using two.

proper noun Chucks

1. 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: Partisan political dysfunction.”

noun Chucks

1. informal, plural normally a Chuck Taylor All-Stars shoe. Got Chucks on with Saint Laurent / Gotta kiss myself, I'm so pretty

proper noun

1. Canada, slang The city of Edmonton.