Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A long, stout, coarse hemp, rather foul, used for making inferior rope.
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- verb Present participle of
chuck .
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Examples
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For a memo from Jonathan Lindley, director of what is laughingly called “enforcement” at BIA reveals that the BIA have no real interest in chucking these people out if they are caught:
An Abject Surrender 2008
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For a memo from Jonathan Lindley, director of what is laughingly called “enforcement” at BIA reveals that the BIA have no real interest in chucking these people out if they are caught:
Archive 2008-01-06 2008
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I am a huge fan of Rob Horne but am still concerned he is pretty under done with not much footy this year, it would be a big call chucking into a QF or SF to run on.
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I am all for the idea of chucking every fcuktard we can find in the Channel tunnel, then blowing it at our end therefore giving all lower echelons of life to France and, double whammy, we also cut all ties with France.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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I am all for the idea of chucking every fcuktard we can find in the Channel tunnel, then blowing it at our end therefore giving all lower echelons of life to France and, double whammy, we also cut all ties with France.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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I am all for the idea of chucking every fcuktard we can find in the Channel tunnel, then blowing it at our end therefore giving all lower echelons of life to France and, double whammy, we also cut all ties with France.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Bowlers in cricket aren't allowed to straighten their bowling arm during delivery; doing so constitutes throwing (known in cricket as "chucking") and is cricket's No. 1 no-no.
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You said you secured the change not because you were angry for Carey "chucking" you but because it made more sense to name it after Teddy Roosevelt because basically there aren't monuments or buildings named after him in NY.
Randy Credico: Congratulations Chuck! You've Knocked Me Off the Democratic Primary Ballot 2010
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Very often it is requisite to solder together two extensive flat surfaces -- for instance, in "chucking" certain kinds of brass work.
On Laboratory Arts Richard Threlfall
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Cardinal Newman was not ashamed to talk of "chucking" a thing off, or getting into a "scrape."
Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell 1886
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