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Synonyms for chuck

69 synonyms
5 meanings

verb
noun

Most common

throw toss fling hurl throw out ditch pat

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Toss — to throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner

toss, throw, hurl, fling, pitch, peck, sling, lob, bowl, shy, heave, dash, launch, project, flirt, cast dated, pick dated, peg slang, jerk dated, chunk slang US, hurtle formal dated

2. Throw out — to discard, to throw away

throw out, ditch, toss out, junk, cast away, get rid of, cast aside, dispose of, jettison, discard, scrap, dump dated UK

3. Throw up — to vomit

throw up, puke, be sick, vomit, purge, regurgitate, spew, retch, honk, disgorge, sick up informal, gag, sick, cat, upchuck informal, regorge, spue, barf slang, vomit up slang

4. Remove — to leave; to depart; to bounce

put out, remove, quit, bounce slang

Other

Noun

1. Chow

chow, grub, eats informal

Other

throw-away, ben, cast-off, cluck, take-off, chucky, chuckstone UK, chuckiestone UK, chuckaway slang dated US

Definitions

v. 1
To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
Chuck that magazine to me, would you?
v. 2
To discard, to throw away.
This food's gone off - you'd better chuck it.
v. 3
To vomit.
n. 1
Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.

Related words

Word family: chuckhole chuck-a-luck chuck-farthing
Phrases: chuck out chuck up chuck it down fuck and chuck chuck a sickie chuck away chuck it chuck a spaz

Forms

Plural: chucks → chows, grubs, throw-aways, bens…
Past participle: chucked
e.g. chucked → tossed, thrun, hurled, pitched…

Example sentences

throw His house is within a stone's throw of his school.
toss The coin toss decides who will kick off the match.
fling "It was just a fling." "I'm filing for a divorce."
hurl I hoped you could hurl some lumens into the gloom.
ditch Tom took the bend too fast and landed in the ditch.

Popularity over time

Word	1850 → 2019	Trend
chuck		falling
throw		rising
toss		rising
fling		rising
hurl		rising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters: cat¹, ben¹, shy¹, pat¹, gag¹, peg¹, lob¹
4 letters: pick¹, sick¹, cast¹, bowl¹, quit¹, dump¹, dash¹, jerk¹, junk¹, eats¹, toss¹, peck¹, chow¹, puke¹
5 letters: throw¹, pitch¹, ditch¹, scrap¹, chunk¹, purge¹, flirt¹, vomit², fling¹, sling¹, heave¹, cluck¹, retch
6 letters: launch¹, remove², bounce¹, chucky, hurtle²
7 letters: project², discard², upchuck, regorge
8 letters: jettison³, disgorge²
9 letters: chuckaway
10 letters: chuckstone
11 letters: regurgitate⁴
12 letters: chuckiestone

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (vomit² = 2 syllables).