chunk

a chunk of change

A lot of money. I can't wait to file my taxes because I know I'm getting a chunk of change back this year. Wow, nice car! That must have cost a chunk of change!
See also: change, chunk, of

blow chunks

slang To vomit, especially violently or in great amount. I felt like I was going to blow chunks from seasickness out on that boat.
See also: blow, chunk

throw chunks

To vomit, especially violently or in great quantity. Everyone bought John so many drinks on his 21st birthday that he was throwing chunks before midnight. I felt like I was going to throw chunks from seasickness out on that boat.
See also: chunk, throw
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

chunk of change

Fig. a lot of money. Tom's new sports car cost a real big chunk of change!
See also: change, chunk, of

chunk something

Rur. to throw something. The kids were out chunking rocks into the lake. Somebody chunked a snowball at me!
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

a chunk of change

AMERICAN, INFORMAL
A chunk of change is an amount of money, usually a large amount. $2.5 billion would be a fair chunk of change out of the state's health or education budget. Lately they've been making quite a chunk of change.
See also: change, chunk, of
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.

blow ˈchunks

(American English, slang) vomit (= bring food from the stomach back out through the mouth): Harry is green — looks like he’s going to blow chunks.
See also: blow, chunk
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

blow chunks

and blow chow and blow grits and blow lunch
tv. to vomit. She drank too much and left the room to blow chunks. Oh my God! She’s blowing grits on my sofa!
See also: blow, chunk

chunk

1. in. to empty one’s stomach; to vomit. (Collegiate.) The cat chunked all over the carpet.
2. in. to do badly; to blunder. Sorry. I really chunked on that last deal.
3. n. a gun considered as a chunk of iron. (Underworld.) You carrying a chunk?
4. n. a fat or stout person. Billie’s getting to be such a chunk!

chunk someone

tv. to beat someone up. Maurice threatened to chunk me.
See also: chunk, someone
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • chunk of change
  • a chunk of change
  • chunk someone
  • take a bite out of
  • take a bite out of (something)
  • take a bite out of something
  • gray amber
  • grits
  • blow chunks
  • above and beyond the call of duty
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The quantity of qualified windows desirable for a target point to become contented affects the length of every slide, and collected with the prospect of a single window being qualified, this number distresses the allotment of chunk sizes.
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As well as the "chunks", Natalie also makes marshmallow lollies and meltaways.
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Based on the idea of peer-to-peer content sharing across VM image files, XID protocol first advertises a hash value that represents either an individual chunk or a group of chunks.
Speeding Up VM Image Distribution for Cloud Data Centers
* Create activities that allow students to use chunked structures in their own ways, not just always experiencing them in music composed by other people.
Nothing short of recognition
The assistance of P2P live streaming by the cloud is generally realized by storing latest chunks in the live stream to the storage service in the cloud.
Low cost cloud-Assisted Peer to Peer live streaming
Practical chunk scheduling mechanisms must be able to deal with these issues.
A novel scheme for improving quality of service of live streaming
The video stream is segmented into chunks and is broadcasted to neighbors.
Topology optimization in hybrid tree/mesh-based peer-to-peer streaming system
If chunk n is not used then [P.sub.TH,n,l] = [infinity] and thus the second constraint has no effect.
Power optimization in a non-coordinated secondary infrastructure in a heterogeneous cognitive radio network
I have found the first split on large chunks is easier if done with a wedge.
One weird trick for chopping wood: it's all in the angle
The label distributions for the English vertices are generated by aggregating the chunk labels of the English tokens to types.
Unsupervised chunking based on graph propagation from bilingual corpus
In viewing natural scenes or displays, a chunk continues to grow until interrupted by one or more isolate gaze points resulting from drifting attention or by accident.
Frequent pattern mining of eye-tracking records partitioned into cognitive chunks
A Russian fireman has been knocked down a rescue ladder by a huge chunk of snow which fell from the roof of a burning building.
Fireman knocked down ladder by massive chunk of snow
In all the experiments each chunk contains 1 second of stream content and all chunks are delivered through a single tree.
Modeling push-based Live P2P streaming by stochastic activity networks
The company is expanding its line of PanFree Predeposited Loaf Cake Batters with Red Velvet Chocolate Chunk and Chocolate Chip.
Chocolate lovers rejoice
And Bernardo Nicoletti, has warned regional banks must up their game to get secure a chunk of the prepaid card market which targets this 'unbanked' group.
New tactics needed