chuck
1 of 5verb (1)
ˈchək 
chucked; chucking; chucks
: cluck
chuck
2 of 5noun (1)
—used as an endearment
chuck
3 of 5verb (2)
chucked; chucking; chucks
transitive verb
1
: pat, tap
2
a
: toss, throw
b
: discard
chucked his old shirt
chuck it out with the trash
c
: dismiss, oust —used especially with out
was chucked out of office
3
: give up
chucked his job
chuck
4 of 5noun (2)
1
: a pat or nudge under the chin
2
: an abrupt movement or toss
chuck
5 of 5noun (3)
1
: a cut of beef that includes most of the neck, the parts about the shoulder blade, and those about the first three ribs see beef illustration
2
chiefly Western US : food
3
: an attachment for holding a workpiece or tool in a machine (such as a drill or lathe)
Synonyms
Verb (2)
- cashier
- cast (off)
- deep-six
- discard
- ditch
- dump
- eighty-six
- 86
- exorcise
- exorcize
- fling (off or away)
- jettison
- junk
- lay by
- lose
- pitch
- reject
- scrap
- shed
- shuck (off)
- slough (off)
- sluff (off)
- throw away
- throw out
- toss
- unload
Noun (3)
- bread
- chow
- comestibles
- eatables
- eats
- edibles
- fare
- food
- foodstuffs
- grub
- meat
- provender
- provisions
- table
- tucker [chiefly Australian]
- viands
- victuals
- vittles
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Word History
Etymology
Verb (1)
Middle English chukken, of imitative origin
Noun (1)
perhaps from chuck chicken
Verb (2)
origin unknown
Noun (3)
English dialect chuck lump
First Known Use
Verb (1)
14th century, in the meaning defined above
Noun (1)
1595, in the meaning defined above
Verb (2)
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Noun (2)
1611, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Noun (3)
1723, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Phrases Containing chuck
Kids Definition
chuck
verb
ˈchək
chucked; chucking
1
: to give a pat or tap to
He chucked me under the chin.
2
: toss entry 1 sense 1
I chucked it out the window.
chucking
verb
1
as in dumping
to get rid of as useless or unwanted after the power outage we reluctantly chucked everything that had been sitting in the fridge Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- dumping
- discarding
- ditching
- unloading
- losing
- tossing
- abandoning
- scrapping
- jettisoning
- shedding
- rejecting
- removing
- junking
- exorcising
- eliminating
- dismissing
- throwing away
- disposing of
- laying by
- 86ing
- deep-sixing
- cashiering
- exorcizing
- pitching
- throwing out
- forsaking
- setting aside
- sluffing (off)
- abolishing
- deserting
- eighty-sixing
- casting (off)
- flinging (off or away)
- sloughing (off)
- abdicating
- shucking (off)
- eradicating
- exterminating
- expunging
- kicking out
- annihilating
- extinguishing
- liquidating
- extirpating
- wiping out
- stamping (out)
- rooting (out)
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- using
- adopting
- embracing
- employing
- utilizing
- holding
- keeping
- retaining
- taking on
- holding back
2
as in leaving
to give up (a job or office) I swear, I have half a mind to chuck this job and become a hermit! Synonyms & Similar Words
- leaving
- quitting
- bagging
- abandoning
- giving notice
- vacating
- stepping down (from)
- resigning (from)
- retiring (from)
- stepping aside (from)
- throwing up
- dropping out (of)
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- staying (at)
- hiring (out or on)
3
as in throwing
to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm chucked a wad of paper at his friend's back Synonyms & Similar Words
- throwing
- tossing
- hurling
- flinging
- slinging
- firing
- launching
- lobbing
- heaving
- hurtling
- pelting
- bowling
- lofting
- casting
- catapulting
- pegging
- pitching
- flipping
- darting
- dashing
- gunning
- rolling
- letting fly
- ejecting
- thrusting
- projecting
- hooking
- propelling
- precipitating
- passing
- bucking
- shooting
- rifling
- impelling