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chuck

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A chuck (device to hold an object in place)

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Etymology 1

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Variant of chock.

Noun

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chuck (countable and uncountable, plural chucks)

  1. (cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
    • 1975, Thomas Fabbricante, William J. Sultan, Practical Meat Cutting and Merchandising: Beef, page 141:
      Arm chucks represent approximately 54% of the beef forequarters.
    • 2001, Bruce Aidells, Denis Kelly, The Complete Meat Cookbook: A Juicy and Authoritative Guide, page 190:
      Often, pieces of the chuck are sold boneless as flat chunks of meat or rolled and tied.
    • 2006, North American Meat Processors Association, The Meat Buyers Guide: Beef, Lamb, Veal, Pork, and Poultry, page 113:
      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, slang, dated) Food.
    • 1951, Frederick Feikema Manfred, Riders of Judgment‎[1], Second, published 2014, →ISBN:
      “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. (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.
    • 1824, Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain), Transactions, Volume 42, page 88,
      I have had a chuck of this kind made in brass with the cones of iron, but it is cumbrous and expensive, and does not answer so well, owing to the surface of the iron offering less resistance to the work turning within it. This, perhaps, might be remedied by roughing; but I think the chuck is much better in wood, as it can be made by any common turner at a trifling expense, and possesses more strength than can possibly be required.
    • 1912, Fred Herbert Colvin, Frank Arthur Stanley, American Machinist Grinding Book, page 322:
      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.
    • 2008, Ramon Francis Bonaquist, NHCRP Report 614: Refining the Simple Performance Tester for Use in Routine Practice, page 30:
      The first step in preparing a test specimen with the FlexPrepTM is to secure the gyratory specimen in the chuck of the machine.
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chuck (third-person singular simple present chucks, present participle chucking, simple past and past participle chucked)

  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.

Etymology 2

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Onomatopoeic dialect term for chicken, imitative of a hen's cluck.

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chuck (plural chucks)

  2. (dialect, obsolete) A chicken, a hen.
  3. A clucking sound.
    • 1998, Scott Freeman, Jon C. Herron, Evolutionary Analysis, page 604:
      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.
  4. (slang) A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
    Are you all right, chuck?

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chuck (third-person singular simple present chucks, present participle chucking, simple past and past participle chucked)

  2. To make a clucking sound.
  3. To call, as a hen her chickens.
  4. (obsolete) To chuckle; to laugh.
    • 1598, John Marston, “Satyre IV”, in The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image, and Certaine Satyres (poem):
      Who would not chuck to see such pleasing sport.
      To see such troupes of gallants still resort
      unto Cornutos shop.

Etymology 3

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Probably from Old French chuquer, later choquer (“to knock, hit”).

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chuck (plural chucks)

  1. A gentle touch or tap.
    She gave him an affectionate chuck under the chin.
  2. (informal) A casual throw.
  3. (cricket, informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
  4. (slang) An act or instance of vomiting.
  5. (music) On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc., the muting of a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
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chuck (third-person singular simple present chucks, present participle chucking, simple past and past participle chucked)

  1. To touch or tap gently.
    • 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, III.ii:
      [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?
  2. (transitive, informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
    Synonyms: fling, hurl; see also Thesaurus:throw
    Chuck that magazine to me, would you?
  3. (intransitive, cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
  4. (transitive, informal) To discard, to throw away.
    Synonyms: chuck out; see also Thesaurus:junk
    This food's gone off - you'd better chuck it.
    • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
      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 […]
  5. (transitive, informal) To jilt; to dump.
    She's chucked me for another man!
  6. (transitive, informal, dated) To give up; to stop doing; to quit.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 101:
      "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."
  7. (intransitive, slang) To vomit.
    Synonyms: throw up; see also Thesaurus:regurgitate
  8. (South Africa, slang, intransitive) To leave; to depart; to bounce.
    Synonyms: take off; see also Thesaurus:leave
    Let's chuck.
  9. (music) On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
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Etymology 4

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From woodchuck.

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chuck (plural chucks)

  1. 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.
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Etymology 5

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chuck (plural chucks)

  1. (Scotland) A small pebble.
  2. (Scotland, obsolete, slang, in the plural) Money.
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  • chucks (game played with pebbles)

Chinook Jargon

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Etymology

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From Nootka č̕aʔak (“water”).

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chuck

  1. water

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