CHUCK OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chuck out mean? 

• CHUCK OUT (verb)
  The verb CHUCK OUT has 2 senses:

1. throw or cast away

2. put out or expel from a place

  Familiarity information: CHUCK OUT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHUCK OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Throw or cast away

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

cast aside; cast away; cast out; chuck out; discard; dispose; fling; put away; throw away; throw out; toss; toss away; toss out

Context example:

Put away your worries

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

get rid of; remove (dispose of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "chuck out"):

unlearn (discard something previously learnt, like an old habit)

deep-six; give it the deep six (toss out; get rid of)

jettison (throw away, of something encumbering)

junk; scrap; trash (dispose of (something useless or old))

waste (get rid of)

dump (throw away as refuse)

retire (dispose of (something no longer useful or needed))

abandon (forsake, leave behind)

liquidize; sell out; sell up (sell or get rid of all one's merchandise)

de-access (dispose of by selling)

close out (terminate by selling off or disposing of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Put out or expel from a place

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

boot out; chuck out; eject; exclude; turf out; turn out

Context example:

The unruly student was excluded from the game

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

expel; kick out; throw out (force to leave or move out)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "chuck out"):

evict; force out (expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process)

evict (expel or eject without recourse to legal process)

show the door (ask to leave)

bounce (eject from the premises)

exorcise; exorcize (expel through adjuration or prayers)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP