chuck

1. Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
2. Food.
3. A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.

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.

1. A chicken, a hen.
2. A clucking sound.
3. A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.

   Are you all right, chuck?

1. To make a clucking sound.
2. To call, as a hen her chickens.

1. A gentle touch or tap.

   She gave him an affectionate chuck under the chin.

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

1. To touch or tap gently.
2. To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.

   Chuck that magazine to me, would you?

3. To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
4. To discard, to throw away.

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

5. To jilt; to dump.

   She's chucked me for another man!

6. To vomit.
7. To leave; to depart; to bounce.

   Let's chuck.

8. To chuckle; to laugh.
9. On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.

noun

A rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots, Marmota monax.

1. A small pebble.
2. (in the plural) Money.