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What does chuck mean?

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Noun
  1. (cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
  2. (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.
Noun
  1. (dialect, obsolete) A chicken, a hen.
  2. A clucking sound.
  3. (slang) A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
  4. A gentle touch or tap.
  5. (informal) A casual throw.
  6. (slang) An act of vomiting.
  7. (cricket, informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
Verb
  1. To make a clucking sound.
  2. To call, as a hen her chickens.
  3. To touch or tap gently.
  4. (transitive, informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
  5. (transitive, informal) To discard, to throw away.
  6. (transitive, informal) To jilt; to dump.
  7. (intransitive, slang) To vomit.
  8. (intransitive, cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
  9. (South Africa, slang, intransitive) To leave; to depart; to bounce.
  10. (obsolete) To chuckle; to laugh.
  11. To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
Noun
  1. Abbreviation of woodchuck.
Noun
  1. (Scotland) A small pebble.
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