chucks
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Definitions ofchucks
- Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
- Food.
- 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.
- A chicken, a hen.
- A clucking sound.
- A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
Example: "Are you all right, chuck?"
- To make a clucking sound.
- To call, as a hen her chickens.
- A gentle touch or tap.
Example: "She gave him an affectionate chuck under the chin."
- A casual throw.
- A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
- An act or instance of vomiting.
- 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.
- To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
Example: "Chuck that magazine to me, would you?"
- To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
- To discard, to throw away.
Example: "This food's gone off - you'd better chuck it."
- To jilt; to dump.
Example: "She's chucked me for another man!"
- To vomit.
- To leave; to depart; to bounce.
Example: "Let's chuck."
- To chuckle; to laugh.
- On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
- A small pebble.
- (in the plural) Money.
- A rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots, Marmota monax.
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