chuck

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Synonyms: check, chunk, chick, shuck, cluck, cuck, chock, huck, chack, cruck, chuc

Antonyms: check, chunk, chick, shuck, cluck, cuck, chock, huck, chack, cruck, chuc

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Noun

1. Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
2. Food.
3. A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.

Verb

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

1. A chicken, a hen.
2. A clucking sound.
3. A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
   • Are you all right, chuck?

Verb

1. To make a clucking sound.
2. To call, as a hen her chickens.
3. To chuckle; to laugh.

Noun

1. A gentle touch or tap.
   • She gave him an affectionate chuck under the chin.
2. A casual throw.
3. A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
4. 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

1. To playfully give a light touch, stroke, tap, etc., to someone, especially under the chin.
2. To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
   • Chuck that magazine to me, would you?
3. To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
4. To discard, to throw away.
   • This food's gone off - you'd better chuck it.
5. To jilt; to dump.
   • She's chucked me for another man!
6. To give up; to stop doing; to quit.
7. To vomit.
8. 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

1. Abbreviation of woodchuck.

Noun

1. A small pebble.
2. Money.

Noun

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

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