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chucker1|ˈtʃʌkə(r)|
[f. chuck v.2 + -er1.]
I. Of things.
1. A small pebble used in the game of check-stones or ‘chucks’. (Cf. checker.)
1760Chron. in Ann. Reg. 82/1 An old labouring man..was laying on a bench fast asleep, some boys being at play with chuckers..one chuck'd one directly into his mouth.
2. A blow with the fist.
a1805Anstey Pindar. Ep. Ld. Buckhorse Poet. Wks. (1808) 155 While you with frequent fist assail'd him, With chuckers in the mazzard nail'd him.
II. Of persons: One who chucks or throws.
3. esp. in chucker-out (vulgar colloq.), one who ‘chucks out’; applied to
a. A bully employed to eject fleeced victims, or persons otherwise objectionable, from a gambling-hall, tavern, or brothel.
1884Gd. Words June 400/1 He had done twelve months [in prison] for crippling for life the ‘chucker-out’ of one of these pubs. 1885All Y. Round Nov. 2226 Dens to which Brickey is attached in the capacity of chucker-out.
b. A fellow engaged to expel disturbers or opponents from a public meeting.
1884Times Weekly Ed. 31 Oct. 14/1 Roughs, hired as ‘chuckers-out’ by the Tory party. 1887Guardian 2 Mar. 343/1 Bogus meetings, where the chairman, committee, reporters, audience, and ‘chuckers-out’ were all subsidised.
c. fig.
1880Punch No. 2040. 63 (Hoppe) Lord Grey was about to resume his rôle of chucker-out to the proposed measures of his own party.
4. Cricket. colloq. A bowler whose delivery of the ball is considered to be a throw, and hence illegal.
1882Australians in England 158 Do not people tell you openly they think so and so a ‘chucker’? 1960Times 3 Oct. 19/6 Meckiff said that even to think of changing his action would be to admit that those who regarded him as a ‘chucker’ were right. |