chuckverb
uk/tʃʌk/us/tʃʌk/chuck verb (THROW)
[ T often + adv/prep ] informal to throw something carelessly:
Chuck it over there/into the corner.
[ + two objects ] Chuck me the keys.
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Throwing
- cast
- fling
- heave
- hurl
- overhand
- peg
- pelt
- pitch
- precipitate
- project
- projectile
- sling
- slung
- stone
- throw
- throw-in
- thrown
- toss
- underarm
- underhand
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chuck verb (END)
[ T ] UK old-fashioned informal to end a romantic relationship with someone:
He's just chucked his girlfriend.
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Relationships: ending & divorce
- a parting of the ways idiom
- affiliation order
- annul
- break up
- break-up
- child support
- give sb the elbow idiom
- give sb the heave-ho idiom
- give sb the push idiom
- go off with sb
- grow
- grow apart
- push
- split
- split up
- split up
- throw
- throw sb over
- tug of love
- visitation
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Idiom(s)
chuck sb under the chin
Phrasal verb(s)
chuck sth away/out
chuck sth in
chuck sb out
chucknoun
uk/tʃʌk/us/tʃʌk/chuck noun (PERSON)
Northern informal also chuckie, a friendly form of address:
"All right, then, chuck?"
chuck noun (MACHINE)
[ C ] specialized engineering a device for holding an object firmly in a machine
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Machines - general words
- 3-D printer
- automatic
- backhoe
- bot
- cash machine
- cement mixer
- cloud chamber
- compactor
- contraption
- cotton gin
- crank
- derrick
- humidifier
- lift
- Mk
- plant
- rotor
- selector
- sensitive
- vending machine
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