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▸ 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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