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.

Examples of "chuck" in Sentences

Apr 30th, 2010 at 3: 30 pm kcijones001: two buck chuck is awesome. i buy it by the case
Gary Vain-er-chuck is most definitely NOT “changing wine of world” or the world of wine.
Although grass-fed, free range chuck is probably leaner than grocery store chuck, now that I think on it.
Guests are encouraged to wear cowboy boots and hats, the buffet is called the "chuck wagon" and the Port-a-potties are "outhouses."
You see he calls for something like a pound of chuck cut into cubes, but for us chuck is almost always packaged and frozen in 3 lbs pieces, frequently bone-in -- plus I hate the idea of cutting chuck into 1-inch cubes and stewing them quickly.
* Caprimulgus rufus called chuck-will's-widow, from a fancied resemblance of his notes to these words: they inhabit the maritime parts of Carolina and Florida, and are more than twice the size of the night hawk or whip-poor-will. and active mock-bird.
August 14th, 2009 6: 41 pm ET chuck is a moron total idiot bottom feeder if he supports the insurance industry .. we need to have some choices and insurance companies need the compatition from a government program. and I think it is great and the president is doing wonderful
The cheapest pieces of beef, suitable for baking or roasting, consist of the thick part of the ribs, cut from towards the shoulder, the mouse buttock and gravy pieces, and also what is commonly called the chuck of beef, which consists of the throat boned and tied up with string in the form of a small round.