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1. Throw carelessly
   "chuck the ball";
   - toss
    
2. Throw away
   "Chuck these old notes";
   - ditch
    
3. Touch or squeeze fondly or playfully
   - pat
    
4. Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
   "After drinking too much, the students chucked";
   - vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, barf, spew, spue [archaic], upchuck [N. Amer], honk, regurgitate, throw up, hurl, keck, chuck up [Brit], chunder [Brit]
    
5. [Brit] Rain heavily
   "Put on your rain coat-- it's chucking outside!";
   - pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets, teem, chuck it down [Brit], tip [Brit], bucket [Brit]

1. The part of a forequarter from the neck to the ribs and including the shoulder blade
   - chuck steak
    
2. A holding device consisting of adjustable jaws that centre a workpiece in a lathe or centre a tool in a drill
    
3. [Brit] The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
   - dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking, heave-ho, severance
    
4. [UK, dialect] A friend or close acquaintance
   "Are you alright, chuck?"
    
5. [N. Amer] Informal term for a meal
   - chow, eats, grub

Derived forms: chucks, chucking, chucked

Type of: abandon, caress, conclusion, cut of beef, egest, eliminate, ending, excrete, fare, fondle, holding device, pass, rain, rain down, termination, throw, wing

Part of: drill, electric drill, lathe, side of beef

Encyclopedia: Chuck