Usually means: Device for holding a tool.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word chuck:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. chuck: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. chuck, chuck, chuck, chuck, chuck, chuck: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chuck, chuck, chuck: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chuck, the chuck: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chuck: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chuck, chuck: Wordnik
  7. chuck: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Chuck, chuck: Wiktionary
  9. chuck: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. chuck: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. chuck: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Chuck, chuck: Dictionary.com
  13. chuck (n.), chuck (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. chuck: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. ChucK, Chuck (Chuck Berry album), Chuck (TV Series), Chuck (TV series), Chuck (album), Chuck (disambiguation), Chuck (engineering), Chuck (film), Chuck (season Chuck+++(season+++1)), Chuck (season 2), Chuck (season 3), Chuck (season 4), Chuck (season 5), Chuck: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Chuck: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. chuck: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. chuck: Rhymezone
  19. Chuck: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. chuck: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. chuck: Free Dictionary
  22. chuck: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. chuck: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. ChucK (programming language), chuck: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ChucK (programming language), chuck: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ChucK (programming language), chuck: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. CHUCK: Acronym Finder
  3. chuck: Idioms
  4. chuck: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chuck (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. chuck, chuck, chuck, chuck, chuck, chuck, chuck, Chuck: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. chuck: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. Chuck, The Chuck, chuck [pissy pants]: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)
  2. Chuck: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Fastener Terms (No longer online)
  3. Woodworking Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Chuck: Glossary of Woodworking Terms
  5. Chuck: Pottery Studio

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
noun:  (US, slang, dated) Food.
noun:  (mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.
verb:  To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning.
verb:  To bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
noun:  (dialect, obsolete) A chicken, a hen.
noun:  A clucking sound.
noun:  (slang) A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
verb:  To make a clucking sound.
verb:  To call, as a hen her chickens.
verb:  (obsolete) To chuckle; to laugh.
noun:  A gentle touch or tap.
noun:  (informal) A casual throw.
noun:  (cricket, informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
noun:  (slang) An act or instance of vomiting.
noun:  (music) On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc., the muting of a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
verb:  To touch or tap gently.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
verb:  (intransitive, cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To discard, to throw away.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To jilt; to dump.
verb:  (transitive, informal, dated) To give up; to stop doing; to quit.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To vomit.
verb:  (South Africa, slang, intransitive) To leave; to depart; to bounce.
verb:  (music) On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
noun:  (Scotland) A small pebble.
noun:  (Scotland, obsolete, slang, in the plural) Money.
noun:  A form of the male given name Charles, of mostly American usage.
noun:  (informal, usually in the plural) a Chuck Taylor All-Stars shoe.
noun:  (Canada, slang) The city of Edmonton.
noun:  Abbreviation of woodchuck. [(Northern US) A rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots, Marmota monax.]

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