chuck🔊

(cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.

(dated) Food.

(mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.

To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning.

To bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.

(chicken) (obsolete) A chicken, a hen.

A clucking sound.

(slang) A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.

(cluck) To make a clucking sound.

To call, as a hen her chickens.

(obsolete) To chuckle; to laugh.

A gentle touch or tap.

(informal) A casual throw.

(informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action.

(slang) An act or instance of vomiting.

(music) On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc., the muting of a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.

To touch or tap gently.

(informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner. +

(cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.

(informal) To discard, to throw away. +

(informal) To jilt; to dump.

(dated) To give up; to stop doing; to quit.

(slang) To vomit. +

To leave; to depart; to bounce. +

(music) On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.

(woodchuck)

(Scotland) A small pebble.

(in the plural) Money.