CHUCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chuck mean? 

• CHUCK (noun)
  The noun CHUCK has 3 senses:

1. informal terms for a meal

2. the part of a forequarter from the neck to the ribs and including the shoulder blade

3. a holding device consisting of adjustable jaws that center a workpiece in a lathe or center a tool in a drill

  Familiarity information: CHUCK used as a noun is uncommon.

• CHUCK (verb)
  The verb CHUCK has 4 senses:

1. throw carelessly

2. throw away

3. pat or squeeze fondly or playfully, especially under the chin

4. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

  Familiarity information: CHUCK used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHUCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Informal terms for a meal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

chow; chuck; eats; grub

Hypernyms ("chuck" is a kind of...):

fare (the food and drink that are regularly served or consumed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The part of a forequarter from the neck to the ribs and including the shoulder blade

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("chuck" is a kind of...):

cut of beef (cut of meat from beef cattle)

Meronyms (parts of "chuck"):

blade (a cut of beef from the shoulder blade)

shoulder (a cut of meat including the upper joint of the foreleg)

Holonyms ("chuck" is a part of...):

side of beef (dressed half of a beef carcass)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A holding device consisting of adjustable jaws that center a workpiece in a lathe or center a tool in a drill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("chuck" is a kind of...):

holding device (a device for holding something)

Meronyms (parts of "chuck"):

jaw (holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chuck"):

collet; collet chuck (a cone-shaped chuck used for holding cylindrical pieces in a lathe)

Holonyms ("chuck" is a part of...):

drill (a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows))

electric drill (a rotating power drill powered by an electric motor)

lathe (machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool)

• CHUCK (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they chuck    ... he / she / it chucks   
Past simple: chucked   
Past participle: chucked   
-ing form: chucking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Throw carelessly

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

chuck; toss

Context example:

chuck the ball

Hypernyms (to "chuck" is one way to...):

throw (propel through the air)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sentence example:

The children chuck the ball

Sense 2

Meaning:

Throw away

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

chuck; ditch

Context example:

Chuck these old notes

Hypernyms (to "chuck" is one way to...):

abandon (forsake, leave behind)

Domain usage:

argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Pat or squeeze fondly or playfully, especially under the chin

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

chuck; pat

Hypernyms (to "chuck" is one way to...):

caress; fondle (touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 4

Meaning:

Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

barf; be sick; cast; cat; chuck; disgorge; honk; puke; purge; regorge; regurgitate; retch; sick; spew; spue; throw up; upchuck; vomit; vomit up

Context example:

The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night

Hypernyms (to "chuck" is one way to...):

egest; eliminate; excrete; pass (eliminate from the body)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

Let's chuck it, an' go hoboin'.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He has fallen or been chucked from the top, and so been impaled.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a cup of tea.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Wait on ’im yourself, then, and chuck up the sponge when things begin to go wrong.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Scientists previously focused most of their studies on Greenland's glaciers, in the southeast and northwest regions of the country, and found that the glaciers have increasingly been dislodging chucks into the ocean.

(Study: Greenland's Ice Melting Faster than Previously Thought, VOA)

And again dodging the boom, I ran to the colour lines, handed down their cursed black flag, and chucked it overboard.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I don't so much mind the fust—the 'ittin' with a pole afore I chucks in their dinner; but I waits till they've 'ad their sherry and kawffee, so to speak, afore I tries on with the ear-scratchin'.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I put it in my mouth for safety, and though my hands trembled a good deal, had just tied the card on very much to my satisfaction, when I felt myself violently chucked under the chin by the long-legged young man, and saw my half-guinea fly out of my mouth into his hand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Aw, come on, Mart, let's chuck it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You’d ’ardly think, to look at me, that even after Mendoza fought me I was able to jump the four-foot ropes at the ring-side just as light as a little kiddy; but if I was to chuck my castor into the ring now I’d never get it till the wind blew it out again, for blow my dicky if I could climb after.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)