verb, noun
verb (informal)
1 (especially BrE) to throw sth carelessly or without much thought: [VN, usually +adv./prep.] He chucked the paper in a drawer. * [VNN] Chuck me the newspaper, would you? [also V]
2 [VN] ~ sth (in / up) to give up or stop doing sth:
You haven't chucked your job! * I'm going to chuck it all in (= give up my job) and go abroad.
3 [VN] (BrE) to leave your boyfriend or girlfriend and stop having a relationship with him or her:
Has he chucked her?
4 [VN] (spoken) to throw sth away:
That's no good-just chuck it.
IDIOMS
chuck sb under the chin (old-fashioned, BrE) to touch sb gently under the chin in a friendly way
it's chucking it down (BrE, spoken) it's raining heavily
PHRASALVERBS
chuck sth<->away
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for chuck is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does chuck appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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