Other forms: chucks
To chuck is to throw something casually. Chuck it over, chuck it in the bin, he chucked his coat on the chair.
It is informal and very common in British speech. Two phrasal uses matter: chuck out means to throw away or to eject somebody from a place, and chuck in means to give up — he chucked in his job. To chuck somebody, in teenage use, means to end a relationship with them. Note the entirely separate technical noun: the chuck is the part of a drill that grips the bit, and chuck is also a cut of beef.
1verbchuckTo throw something casually.
“Chuck me the keys.”
2verbthrowTo throw something away.
“Chuck it out, it has been in there since April.”
3noundrillThe part of a drill that holds the bit.
“Tighten the chuck before you start.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
chuck is a casual throw.
Variant of chock.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA