1
as in dumps
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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2
as in leaves
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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as in throws
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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Recent Examples of chucks
Chalamet crawls out of the weird-for-the-sake-of-being-weird chamber and chucks the helmet to the ground, displaying his now shaven head.
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Marci Robin, Allure, 8 Oct. 2025
Marci Robin, Allure, 8 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chucks
Verb
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Nature dumps 12 to 18 inches of inconvenience uniformly across an entire community and leaves it up to you and your neighbors to sort out the mess.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
23 Feb. 2026
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If someone illegally dumps a couch or a mattress or does something and throws it onto the shoulder of the highway.—
Sean Krofssik,
Hartford Courant,
17 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Still, the privacy inherent in private credit often leaves an information vacuum that observers fill with worst-case scenarios.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
6 Mar. 2026
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Tender’s assets Tender CEO Whitney Halberstram (Max Minghella) engineers the downfall of co-founder Jonah Atterbury (Kal Penn) and eventually leaves Henry holding the bag for the company’s fraud.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Coleman fields a grounder and throws it to second, bringing up the bottom of the third.—
Caleb Yum,
Austin American Statesman,
6 Mar. 2026
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Brown responds by shoving the officer's hand down, and after the second shove, the officer throws two punches.—
JT Moodee Lockman,
CBS News,
5 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Try the Storm Chaser, which sends you into a zero-gravity fall, catches you in a funnel, then discards you into a pool below.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Feb. 2026
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At the same time, Gans discards the psychological and spatial logic that gave meaning to the original telling’s dream-like sense of disorientation.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
23 Jan. 2026
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And the quits rate of workers voluntarily leaving their jobs — which can reflect their degree of confidence in the job market — stayed relatively low at around 2% throughout 2025.—
Sarah Jackson,
CNBC,
28 Feb. 2026
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The pedal-assist, however, quits helping at 25km/h (16mph) in Europe.—
Thomas Ricker,
The Verge,
28 Feb. 2026
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Gyllenhaal lovingly crafts this scarred, stapled and eccentric Bonnie and Clyde duo then tosses them into a landscape of curiosities that matches their weird.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
4 Mar. 2026
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During trials, the advanced wing neutralized 87 percent of the turbulence that typically tosses usual underwater vehicles off course.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Mar. 2026
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The relaxed outdoor atmosphere ditches the white tablecloth mentality, creating an environment where couples can genuinely be themselves.—
Lauren Schuster,
Kansas City Star,
5 Mar. 2026
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Today, the American automaker soft-launched a new front end that ditches the traditional open-mouth grille for more of a horizontal-bar RoboCop-eye-slit design with upswept headlights.—
Andrew P. Collins,
The Drive,
25 Feb. 2026
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Nina sort of hurls the question of authenticity back to the foreign tastemakers hot on her heels.—
Lé Baltar,
IndieWire,
17 Feb. 2026
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The House of the Spirits is a family saga that charts the Trueba family through multiple generations, spanning violent social change and culminating in a crisis that hurls a tyrannical patriarch and his beloved granddaughter towards opposite sides of the fence.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Chucks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chucks. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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