chuck

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.

   “Arm chucks represent approximately 54% of the beef forequarters.”

   “Often, pieces of the chuck are sold boneless as flat chunks of meat or rolled and tied.”

   “The chucks are that portion of foresaddle remaining after excluding the hotel rack and plate portions of the breast as described in Item No. 306. The veal foreshanks (Item No. 312) and brisket may either be attached or separated and packaged with the chucks.”

2. (US, countable, dated, slang, uncountable)Food.

   ““Hambone, how's for chuck?” Hambone removed pipe from mouth, slowly. “Wal, I reckon I still got a few whistleberries left. Some sonofabitch stew mabbe. A few shot biscuits.””

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

   “Iron and steel in contact with magnets retain some of the magnetism, which is sometimes more or less of a nuisance in getting small work off the chucks.”

   “2003, Julie K. Petersen, “chuck”, entry in Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary, page 181, A fiber optic splicing device may be equipped with V-grooves or chucks to hold the two pieces of fiber optic filament to be spliced. If it has chucks, they are typically either clamping chucks or vacuum chucks.”

   “The first step in preparing a test specimen with the FlexPrepᵀᴹ is to secure the gyratory specimen in the chuck of the machine.”

4. (dialectal, obsolete)A chicken, a hen.
5. A clucking sound.

   “The call always starts with a whine, to which the males add from 0 to 6 chucks. In choice tests, females approach calls that contain chucks in preference to calls that contain no chucks.”

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

   “Are you all right, chuck?”

   “Pray, chuck, come hither.”

7. A gentle touch or tap.

   “She gave him an affectionate chuck under the chin.”

8. (informal)A casual throw.
9. (informal)A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
10. (slang)An act or instance of vomiting.
11. On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc., the muting of a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
12. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of woodchuck.

    “1976 August, Sylvia Bashline, Woodchucks Are Tablefare Too, Field & Stream, page 50, Chucks are plentiful, and most farmers are glad to have the incurable diggers kept at tolerable population levels. […] For some reason, my family didn′t eat ′chucks. Few families in the area did.”

13. (Scotland)A small pebble.
14. (Scotland, in-plural, obsolete, slang)Money.
15. (countable, uncountable)A pair of nunchaku, especially when using two.
16. (informal, plural-normally)a Chuck Taylor All-Stars shoe.

    “Got Chucks on with Saint Laurent / Gotta kiss myself, I'm so pretty”

verb

1. To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning.
2. To bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
3. To make a clucking sound.
4. To call, as a hen her chickens.

   “Then crowing clapped his wing, th'appointed call To chuck his wives together in the hall.”

5. (obsolete)To chuckle; to laugh.

   “Who would not chuck to see such pleasing sport. To see such troupes of gallants still resort unto Cornutos shop.”

6. To touch or tap gently.

   “[Y]ou look now as you did before we were married—when you used to walk with me under the Elms, and tell me stories of what a Gallant you were in your youth—and chuck me under the chin you would—and ask me if I thought I could love an old Fellow who would deny me nothing—didn't you?”

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

   “Chuck that magazine to me, would you?”

8. (intransitive)To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
9. (informal, transitive)To discard, to throw away.

   “This food's gone off - you'd better chuck it.”

   “When Dangerfield put the little roll in his hand, Irons looked suspicious and frightened, and balanced it in his palm, as if he had thoughts of chucking it from him, as though it were literally a satanic douceur. But it is hard to part with money, and Irons, though he still looked cowed and unhappy, put the money into his breeches' pocket, and he made a queer bow […]”

10. (informal, transitive)To jilt; to dump.

    “She's chucked me for another man!”

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

    “"When he got religion old Joe stuck every penny away in the Savings Bank, and when he chucked religion he'd draw out the lot and go on a bender that landed him in the horrors, like as not."”

12. (intransitive, slang)To vomit.
13. (South-Africa, intransitive, slang)To leave; to depart; to bounce.

    “Let's chuck.”

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

name

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

   “The digital ads open over a shot of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer, the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, while a narrator declares: “For years, it paralyzed Washington: Partisan political dysfunction.””

2. (Canada, slang)The city of Edmonton.