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substances intended to be eaten
- after a long day, the cowboys lined up for some chuck
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chuck
verbSynonyms & Antonyms of chuck (Entry 2 of 2)
1
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
- after the power outage we reluctantly chucked everything that had been sitting in the fridge
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- cashier,
- cast (off),
- deep-six,
- discard,
- ditch,
- dump,
- eighty-six
- (or 86),
- exorcise
- (also exorcize),
- fling (off or away),
- jettison,
- junk,
- lay by,
- lose,
- pitch,
- reject,
- scrap,
- shed,
- shuck (off),
- slough (off)
- also sluff (off),
- throw away,
- throw out,
- toss,
- unload
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2
to give up (a job or office)
- I swear, I have half a mind to chuck this job and become a hermit!
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- hire (out or on)
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3
to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm
- chucked a wad of paper at his friend's back
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“Chuck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chuck. Accessed 23 Oct. 2021.
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