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chuck
verb- to vomit AUSTRALIA, 1957
- His tie might be a little scraggy because the baby chucked all over his only paisley silk one[.] — Sue Rhodes, And when she was bad she was popular, p. 35, 1968
- — Alexander Buzo, Norm and Ahmed, p. 19, 1969
- — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 115, 1969
- The green-faced fellow lifted his head and replied, “What do you mean, not doing too well? I’m chucking as far as anyone else.” — Bob Staines, Wot a Whopper, p. 43, 1982
- — David McGill, David McGill’s Complete Kiwi Slang Dictionary, p. 28, 1998
- to throw something UK, 1593
- Robert Jr. and I got to be tight friends–by chucking rocks at a tin can, the next day in the courtyard. — Bobby Seale, A Lonely Rage, p. 25, 1978
- to throw something away, to discard something US, 1911
- We all decided to chuck the idea because I’d have trouble making friends. — Heathers, 1988
- Well maybe I should just chuck it all and go sell derby hats to women in Boliva. — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 11, 1993
- to throw a case out of court UK
Police slang. - — G.F. Newman, Sir, You Bastard, 1970
- to dismiss someone, to reject someone; to jilt someone AUSTRALIA
- — Leonard Mann, Flesh in Armour, p. 155, 1932
- If you chucked me for another woman I wouldn’t have much to live for, but you wouldn’t find me playing the dying dove for all that. — Norman Lindsay, The Cousin from Fiji, p. 229, 1945
- to eat excessively when during withdrawal from drug dependence US
- — Rose Giallombardo, Society of Women, p. 206, 1966: Glossary of Prison Terms
- — David Powis, The Signs of Crime, 1977
- to forget US
Also “chuck it.” - — Marcus Hanna Boulware, Jive and Slang of Students in Negro Colleges, 1947
▶ chuck a charley; chuck a charlie
to have a fit of temper AUSTRALIA, 1945- ‘E was gonna chuck a charlie an’ I wanted to shoot through[.] — Kathleen Spaulding, An Aussie Tale (Tail), 1998
▶ chuck a dummy
to feign an illness or injury US- — Jay Robert Nash, Dictionary of Crime, p. 66, 1992
▶ chuck a mental
to lose your temper and composure in a manner that suggests emotional instability NEW ZEALAND- — David McGill, David McGill’s Complete Kiwi Slang Dictionary, p. 30, 1998
▶ chuck a seven- to have a fit of temper AUSTRALIA
From the language of dice-playing. - — Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, p. 121, 1945
- to die AUSTRALIA, 1961
From the game of craps, in which to throw a seven (except on the first roll) is to lose.
▶ chuck a six; chuck a sixer
to have a fit of temper AUSTRALIA
From dice-playing.- — Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, p. 121, 1945
▶ chuck a willy
to have a fit of temper AUSTRALIA- — Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, p. 121, 1945
▶ chuck a wing-ding
to feign a seizure while in prison in the hope of obtaining drugs in treatment US- — Jay Robert Nash, Dictionary of Crime, p. 66, 1992
▶ chuck your weight about; chuck your weight around
to behave in an unpleasant, domineering way; to bully someone UK, 1909▶ chuck yourself about; chuck yourself into
to move about energetically UK, 1984- Not sure on his classical abilities but he chucked himself into everything and smiled regardless of how exhausted he must have been at the end. — Ballet Magazine, May 2000
- Matt [Rippy] has spent the past three years chucking himself about the stage with the Reduced Shakespeare Company performing “THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (abridged)” — excert from the biography of an actor at the English Theater, Frankfurt, 9 June 2003
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