chuck

(countable, uncountable)(cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.

(US, countable, dated, slang, uncountable)Food.

(countable, uncountable)(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.

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.

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.

(dialectal, obsolete)(dialect, obsolete) A chicken, a hen.

A clucking sound.

(slang)A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.

Are you all right, chuck?

A gentle touch or tap.

She gave him an affectionate chuck under the chin.

(informal)A casual throw.

(informal)(cricket, informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action.

(slang)An act or instance of vomiting.

(music) 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 of)Abbreviation 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. […] For some reason, my family didn′t eat ′chucks. Few families in the area did.

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.

(obsolete)To chuckle; to laugh.

To touch or tap gently.

(informal, transitive)To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.

Chuck that magazine to me, would you?

Đồng nghĩa: fling, hurl, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck, fling, jerk, heave, hield, hoy, huck, hurl, hurtle, launch, lob, peck, peg, pick, pitch, precipitate, project, quoit, shy, slight, skew, sling, thrill, throw, toss, traject, warp, whang, whip, whop, wing

(intransitive)(intransitive, cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.

(informal, transitive)To discard, to throw away.

This food's gone off - you'd better chuck it.

Đồng nghĩa: chuck out, junk, 86, bin, can, cast aside, cast off, cast away, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, discard, dispose of, ditch, dump, get rid of, jettison, pitch, scrap, shift, throw aside, throw away, throw out, toss, trash

(informal, transitive)To jilt; to dump.

She's chucked me for another man!

(dated, informal, transitive)To give up; to stop doing; to quit.

(intransitive, slang)To vomit.

Đồng nghĩa: throw up, bait, barf, be sick, blow chunks, boak, boke, boot, bork, bow down before the porcelain god, cast, cast up one's accounts, chuck, chuck up, chunder, disgorge, drive the porcelain bus, erupt, gag, get sick, heave, honk, hurl, launch one's lunch, lose one's lunch, pray to the porcelain god, puke, puke up, purge, ralph, regurge, regurgitate, retch, shoot the cat, sick, sick up, spew, talk to God on the big white telephone, talk to Ralph on the big white telephone, throw up, toss, toss one's cookies, upchuck, vomit, woof one's cookies, whoops, worship the porcelain god, worship the porcelain goddess, yak