Meaning of Chuck | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A form of the male given name Charles, of mostly American usage.
2. a Chuck Taylor All-Stars shoe.
   informal, plural-normally
3. The city of Edmonton.
   Canada, slang
4. Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
   countable, uncountable
5. A chicken, a hen.
   dialectal, obsolete
6. A gentle touch or tap.
7. Abbreviation of woodchuck.
   abbreviation, alt-of
8. A small pebble.
   Scotland
9. Food.
   US, countable, dated, slang, uncountable
10. A clucking sound.
11. A casual throw.
    informal
12. Money.
    Scotland, in-plural, obsolete, slang
13. A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.
    countable, uncountable
14. A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
    slang
15. A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
    informal
16. An act or instance of vomiting.
    slang
17. On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc., the muting of a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.

Equivalents

Examples

“Arm chucks represent approximately 54% of the beef forequarters.”

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

“The chucks are that portion of foresaddle remaining after excluding the hotel rack and plate portions of the breast as described in Item No. 306. The veal foreshanks (Item No. 312) and brisket may either be attached or separated and packaged with the chucks.”

““Hambone, how's for chuck?” Hambone removed pipe from mouth, slowly. “Wal, I reckon I still got a few whistleberries left. Some sonofabitch stew mabbe. A few shot biscuits.””

“1824, Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain), Transactions, Volume 42, 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.”

“Iron and steel in contact with magnets retain some of the magnetism, which is sometimes more or less of a nuisance in getting small work off the chucks.”

“2003, Julie K. Petersen, “chuck”, entry in Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary, 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.”

“The first step in preparing a test specimen with the FlexPrepᵀᴹ is to secure the gyratory specimen in the chuck of the machine.”

“The call always starts with a whine, to which the males add from 0 to 6 chucks. In choice tests, females approach calls that contain chucks in preference to calls that contain no chucks.”

“Are you all right, chuck?”

“Pray, chuck, come hither.”

“She gave him an affectionate chuck under the chin.”

“1976 August, Sylvia Bashline, Woodchucks Are Tablefare Too, Field & Stream, 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.”

“The digital ads open over a shot of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer, the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, while a narrator declares: “For years, it paralyzed Washington: Partisan political dysfunction.””

“Got Chucks on with Saint Laurent / Gotta kiss myself, I'm so pretty”

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