• IPA: /t͡ʃʌk/
• (Northern England, Ireland) IPA: /t͡ʃʊk/

Variant of chock.

chuck

1. (cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
   • 2001, Bruce Aidells, Denis Kelly, The Complete Meat Cookbook: A Juicy and Authoritative Guide, page 190:

     Often, pieces of the chuck are sold boneless as flat chunks of meat or rolled and tied.

2. (US, slang, dated) Food.
3. (mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.
   • 1824, Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain), Transactions, Volume 42, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=GB_yAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA88&dq=%22chuck%22|%22chucks%22+-intitle:%22chuck|chucks%22+-inauthor:%22chuck%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YOclT4-XJ7GyiQfKtdXrBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22chuck%22|%22chucks%22%20-intitle%3A%22chuck|chucks%22%20-inauthor%3A%22chuck%22&f=false page 88],

     I have had a chuck of this kind made in brass with the cones of iron, but it is cumbrous and expensive, and does not answer so well, owing to the surface of the iron offering less resistance to the work turning within it. This, perhaps, might be remedied by roughing; but I think the chuck is much better in wood, as it can be made by any common turner at a trifling expense, and possesses more strength than can possibly be required.

   • 2003, Julie K. Petersen, “chuck”, entry in Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rFX6WyvVlHwC&pg=PA181&dq=%22chucks%22+-intitle:%22chuck|chucks%22+-inauthor:%22chuck%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XBkmT-jRHuyeiAfvs53bBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22chucks%22%20-intitle%3A%22chuck|chucks%22%20-inauthor%3A%22chuck%22&f=false page 181],

     A fiber optic splicing device may be equipped with V-grooves or chucks to hold the two pieces of fiber optic filament to be spliced. If it has chucks, they are typically either clamping chucks or vacuum chucks.

• German: Rinderkamm, Rinderhals, Rindernacken, Nackenstück
• Portuguese: pá
• Russian: ше́я

• French: mandrin
• German: Spannfutter, Spannzange, Bohrfutter
• Italian: mandrino
• Portuguese: mandril
• Russian: (зажи́мный) патро́н
• Spanish: mandril, portabrocas

chuck (chucks, present participle chucking; simple past and past participle chucked)

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.

chuck (plural chucks)

1. (dialect, obsolete) A chicken, a hen.
2. A clucking sound.
3. (slang) A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.

   Are you all right, chuck?

   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act IV, scene ii]:

     Pray, chuck, come hither.

chuck (chucks, present participle chucking; simple past and past participle chucked)

1. To make a clucking sound.
2. To call, as a hen her chickens.
   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Cock and the Fox: Or, The Tale of the Nun's Priest, from Chaucer”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC ↗:

     Then crowing clapped his wing, th'appointed call
     To chuck his wives together in the hall.

3. (obsolete) To chuckle; to laugh.

Probably from Old French chuquer, later choquer.

chuck (plural chucks)

1. A gentle touch or tap.

   She gave him an affectionate chuck under the chin.

2. (informal) A casual throw.
3. (cricket, informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
4. (slang) An act or instance of vomiting.
5. (music) On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc., the muting of a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.

• Italian: buffetto, pacca
• Spanish: mamola, manona, palmada

chuck (chucks, present participle chucking; simple past and past participle chucked)

1. To touch or tap gently.
   • 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, III.ii:

     [Y]ou look now as you did before we were married—when you used to walk with me under the Elms, and tell me stories of what a Gallant you were in your youth—and chuck me under the chin you would—and ask me if I thought I could love an old Fellow who would deny me nothing—didn't you?

2. (transitive, informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.

   Chuck that magazine to me, would you?

3. (intransitive, cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
4. (transitive, informal) To discard, to throw away.

   Synonyms: chuck out

   This food's gone off - you'd better chuck it.

5. (transitive, informal) To jilt; to dump.

   She's chucked me for another man!

6. (transitive, informal, dated) To give up; to stop doing; to quit.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC ↗, page 101:

     "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."

7. (intransitive, slang) To vomit.
8. (South Africa, slang, intransitive) To leave; to depart; to bounce.

   Let's chuck.

9. (music) On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.

• Italian: tirare, scaricare, gettare, mollare, lanciare

• German: wegwerfen
• Italian: gettare, buttare via, scaricare

• French: vomir
• Italian: vomitare, rigettare
• Spanish: chuñear

From woodchuck.

chuck (plural chucks)

1. Abbreviation of woodchuck
   • 1976 August, Sylvia Bashline, Woodchucks Are Tablefare Too, Field & Stream, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=BEGoQLm6yFQC&pg=PA50&dq=%22chucks%22+-intitle:%22chuck|chucks%22+-inauthor:%22chuck%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KBwmT4DXF4a3iQeL5fyiBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22chucks%22%20-intitle%3A%22chuck|chucks%22%20-inauthor%3A%22chuck%22&f=false page 50],

     Chucks are plentiful, and most farmers are glad to have the incurable diggers kept at tolerable population levels. […] For some reason, my family didn′t eat ′chucks. Few families in the area did.

chuck (plural chucks)

1. (Scotland) A small pebble.
2. (Scotland, obsolete, slang, in the plural) Money.

• chuckie, chucky
• chuckstone, chuckiestone

• chucks (game played with pebbles)

• IPA: /t͡ʃʌk/

chuck (plural chucks)

1. (informal, usually, in the plural) a Chuck Taylor All-Stars shoe.

Shortening of Edmonchuk. So named because of the large Ukrainian - population; -чук is common suffix in Ukrainian surnames.

1. (Canada, slang) The city of Edmonton.