Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word CHUCK

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Definitions of CHUCK

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.
3. A clucking sound.
4. To make a clucking sound.
5. To call, as a hen her chickens.
6. A gentle touch or tap.
7. To touch or tap gently.
8. Abbreviation of woodchuck.
9. (cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
10. (US, slang, dated) Food.
11. (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.
12. (dialect, obsolete) A chicken, a hen.
13. (slang) A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
14. (obsolete) To chuckle; to laugh.
15. (informal) A casual throw.
16. (cricket, informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
17. (slang) An act or instance of vomiting.
18. (music) On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc., the muting of a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
19. (transitive, informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
20. (intransitive, cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
21. (transitive, informal) To discard, to throw away.
22. (transitive, informal) To jilt; to dump.
23. (transitive, informal, dated) To give up; to stop doing; to quit.
24. (intransitive, slang) To vomit.
25. (South Africa, slang, intransitive) To leave; to depart; to bounce.
26. (music) On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
27. (Scotland) A small pebble.
28. (Scotland, obsolete, slang, in the plural) Money.
29. A form of the male given name Charles, of mostly American usage.
30. (informal, usually, in the plural) a Chuck Taylor All-Stars shoe.
31. (Canada, slang) The city of Edmonton.

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Examples of Using CHUCK in a Sentence

• Carlton Douglas Ridenhour (born August 1, 1960), known professionally as Chuck D, is an American rapper, best known as the leader and frontman of the hip hop group Public Enemy, which he co-founded in 1985 with Flavor Flav.
• Charles Edward "Chuck" Jones (November 8, 1952 – September 11, 2001) was a United States Air Force officer, an aeronautical engineer, computer programmer, and an astronaut in the USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program.
• The MOS Technology 6502 (typically pronounced "sixty-five-oh-two" or "six-five-oh-two") is an 8-bit microprocessor that was designed by a small team led by Chuck Peddle for MOS Technology.
• Public Enemy is an American hip hop group formed by Chuck D and Flavor Flav on Roosevelt, New York, in 1985.
• In 2006, Schoolly D co-wrote the indie film soundtrack of the historical science fiction thriller Order of the Quest with Chuck Treece.
• The original code for vi was written by Bill Joy in 1976 as the visual mode for the ex line editor that Joy had written with Chuck Haley.
• A Tony Award-nominee for his work on Broadway, Bakula starred in the comedy-drama series Men of a Certain Age and guest-starred in the second and third seasons of NBC's Chuck as the title character's father, Stephen J.
• It was the band's only album recorded with drummer Chuck Behler and guitarist Jeff Young, both of whom were fired from the band in early 1989, several months after the completion of the album's world tour.
• 5/1/1988 Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King (1988) Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller McGraw-Hill.
• Produced by Springsteen, Jon Landau, Steven Van Zandt, and Chuck Plotkin, the album was recorded in New York City with the E Street Band over two years between January 1982 and March 1984.
• For this reason Chuck Peddle and Bill Seiler started to design a computer named TOI (The Other Intellect).
• Chuck Allard and played its first season in 1972–73 as one of the twelve founding franchises of the major professional World Hockey Association (WHA).
• Duck Amuck is an American animated surreal comedy short film directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese.
• Tiger Beat was founded in September 1965 by Charles "Chuck" Laufer, his brother Ira Laufer, and television producer and host Lloyd Thaxton.
• The show was created and originally produced by Chuck Barris, who also served as host for the NBC run and from 1977 to 1980 in syndication.
• In 1992, she released her first album, The Other Side, a set of duets with go-go musician Chuck Brown, followed by the 1996 live solo album titled Live at Blues Alley.
• His co-writing partners include Will Kimbrough, Matraca Berg, Chuck Cannon, Cindy Morgan, Wayne Kirkpatrick, Gordon Kennedy, Keb' Mo', and Emmylou Harris.
• Chuck Leavell, an American musician and current tree farmer in Twiggs County, who was a member of The Allman Brothers Band during the height of their 1970s popularity, a founding member of the jazz-rock combo Sea Level, a frequently-employed session musician, and long-time touring member of The Rolling Stones.
• Chuck Peddle, leader of the 650x group at MOS (and former member of Motorola's 6800 team), designed the KIM-1 in order to fill this need.
• Meyers Chuck is a former census-designated place in the City and Borough of Wrangell, Alaska, United States.

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