chuck | | |
n. (food) | 1. chow, chuck, eats, grub | informal terms for a meal. |
| ~ fare | the food and drink that are regularly served or consumed. |
n. (food) | 2. chuck | the part of a forequarter from the neck to the ribs and including the shoulder blade. |
| ~ side of beef | dressed half of a beef carcass. |
| ~ cut of beef | cut of meat from beef cattle. |
| ~ blade | a cut of beef from the shoulder blade. |
| ~ shoulder | a cut of meat including the upper joint of the foreleg. |
n. (artifact) | 3. chuck | a holding device consisting of adjustable jaws that center a workpiece in a lathe or center a tool in a drill. |
| ~ collet chuck, collet | a cone-shaped chuck used for holding cylindrical pieces in a lathe. |
| ~ drill | a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows). |
| ~ electric drill | a rotating power drill powered by an electric motor. |
| ~ holding device | a device for holding something. |
| ~ jaw | holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object. |
| ~ lathe | machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool. |
v. (contact) | 4. chuck, toss | throw carelessly.; "chuck the ball" |
| ~ throw | propel through the air.; "throw a frisbee" |
v. (possession) | 5. chuck, ditch | throw away.; "Chuck these old notes" |
| ~ argot, jargon, lingo, patois, vernacular, slang, cant | a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves).; "they don't speak our lingo" |
| ~ abandon | forsake, leave behind.; "We abandoned the old car in the empty parking lot" |
v. (contact) | 6. chuck, pat | pat or squeeze fondly or playfully, especially under the chin. |
| ~ caress, fondle | touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner.; "He caressed her face"; "They fondled in the back seat of the taxi" |
v. (body) | 7. barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up | eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth.; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" |
| ~ egest, excrete, eliminate, pass | eliminate from the body.; "Pass a kidney stone" |
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