chucked

noun

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

(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.

A clucking sound.

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

A gentle touch or tap.

(informal) A casual throw.

(cricket, 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.

(Scotland) A small pebble.

A form of the male given name Charles, of mostly American usage.

(informal, usually in the plural) a Chuck Taylor All-Stars shoe.

(Canada, slang) The city of Edmonton.

Abbreviation of woodchuck. [(Northern US) A rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots, Marmota monax.]

(US, slang, dated) Food.

(dialect, obsolete) A chicken, a hen.

(Scotland, obsolete, slang, in the plural) Money.

verb

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.

To make a clucking sound.

To call, as a hen her chickens.

To touch or tap gently.

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

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

(transitive, informal) To discard, to throw away.

(transitive, informal) To jilt; to dump.

(intransitive, slang) To vomit.

(South Africa, slang, intransitive) 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.

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

(obsolete) To chuckle; to laugh.

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