chuck up

Definitions

1. 1

   To vomit

   To vomit; throw up.

   • She got ridiculously drunk last night and chucked up in the back of the minicab on the way home.
   • Take it easy on the roller coasters or you're going to chuck up your lunch.
2. 2

   To chuck up the sponge

   To chuck up the sponge; to give up; to admit defeat; to break a contract; to abandon or quit (something).

   • But when you've tried it once or twice, And do not find it over nice, If it's dear at any price, Chuck it up. If it's not a paying game, Not worth the candle — all the same, Chuck it up.
   • What worried me was the sense of being up against something inhumanly formidable and wise and strong. I believed I was willing to own defeat and chuck up the game.
3. 3

   To be released from prison.

The neighborhood

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