chuck

IPA: tʃˈʌk

(cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
(US, slang, dated) Food.
(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.
(dialect, obsolete) A chicken, a hen.
A clucking sound.
(slang) A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
A gentle touch or tap.
(informal) A casual throw.
(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.
(Scotland) A small pebble.
(Scotland, obsolete, slang, in the plural) Money.
A form of the male given name Charles, of mostly American usage.
(informal, usually in the plural) a Chuck Taylor All-Stars shoe.
(Canada, slang) The city of Edmonton.
Abbreviation of woodchuck. [(Northeastern US, Upper Midwestern US) A rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots, Marmota monax.]

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.
(transitive, informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
(intransitive, cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
(transitive, informal) To discard, to throw away.
(transitive, informal) To jilt; to dump.
(transitive, informal, dated) To give up; to stop doing; to quit.
(intransitive, slang) To vomit.
(South Africa, slang, intransitive) To leave; to depart; to bounce.
(music) On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.

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