chuck

noun

/t͡ʃʌk/

Etymology

From earlier chock, likely imitative, but perhaps also from Middle English chokken (“to thrust, pierce, cram”), from Picard Old French chuquier (“to collide, strike”, intransitive verb), from Middle Dutch schocken (“to bump, shake”). Doublet of shock and shuck.

derived from schocken — “to bump, shake”
derived from chuquier — “to collide, strike”
inherited from chokken — “to thrust, pierce, cram”

Definitions

1
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.
2
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
A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit…
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.
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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. A chicken, a hen.
4. 7
  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.
5. 8
  A friend or close acquaintance
  A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
  - Are you all right, chuck?
  - Pray, chuck, come hither.
6. To make a clucking sound.
7. 10
  To call, as a hen her chickens.
  - Then crowing clapped his wing, th'appointed call To chuck his wives together in the hall.
8. 11
  To chuckle
  To chuckle; to laugh.
  - Who would not chuck to see such pleasing sport. To see such troupes of gallants still resort unto Cornutos shop.
9. 12
  A gentle touch or tap.
  - She gave him an affectionate chuck under the chin.
10. A casual throw.
11. A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
12. An act or instance of vomiting.
13. On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc., the muting of a chord by lifting the fretting fingers…
  On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc., the muting of a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
14. To touch or tap gently.
15. 18
  To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
  - Chuck that magazine to me, would you?
16. To throw
  To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
17. 20
  To discard, to throw away.
  - This food's gone off - you'd better chuck it.
18. 21
  To jilt
  To jilt; to dump.
  - She's chucked me for another man!
19. 22
  To give up
  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."
20. To vomit.
21. 24
  To leave
  To leave; to depart; to bounce.
  - Let's chuck.
22. On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.
  On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
23. Abbreviation of woodchuck.
24. A small pebble.
25. Money.
26. A pair of nunchaku, especially when using two.
27. 30
  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.”
28. 31
  a Chuck Taylor All-Stars shoe.
  - Got Chucks on with Saint Laurent / Gotta kiss myself, I'm so pretty
29. The city of Edmonton.

The neighborhood

synonymchuckie
synonymchucky
synonymchuckstone
synonymchuckiestone
neighborchucks

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at chuck. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at chuck. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at chuck

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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Etymology

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Derived

Vish — recursive loop