The Meaning of chuck

• (v. i.) To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.
• (v. i.) To chuckle; to laugh.
• (v. t.) To call, as a hen her chickens.
• (n.) The chuck or call of a hen.
• (n.) A sudden, small noise.
• (n.) A word of endearment; -- corrupted from chick.
• (v. t.) To strike gently; to give a gentle blow to.
• (v. t.) To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch.
• (v. t.) 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.
• (n.) A slight blow or pat under the chin.
• (n.) A short throw; a toss.
• (n.) A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon.
• (n.) A small pebble; -- called also chuckstone and chuckiestone.
• (n.) A game played with chucks, in which one or more are tossed up and caught; jackstones.
• (n.) A piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast.

Synonyms

chow , eats , grub , toss , ditch , pat , vomit , vomit up , purge , cast , sick , cat , be sick , disgorge , regorge , retch , puke , barf , spew , spue , upchuck , honk , regurgitate , throw up

Antonyms

keep down

Rhymes

amok , amuck , bruck , buc , buck , canuck , chuck-a-luck , cluck , cruck , druck , duc , duck , duk , dumbstruck , fluck , fuck , gluck , guck , huck , hucke , kluck , kruck , kruk , kuc , kuck , kuk , luck , lucke , luk , megabuck , moonstruck , muck , pluck , potluck , puck , roebuck , ruck , schmuck , schuch , schuck , sculk , shuck , smuck , snuck , starstruck , struck , stuck , stucke , suck , suk , thunderstruck , truck , tuck , tuque , unstuck , wnuk , woodchuck , wruck , yuck , yuk , zuck , zuk