0 to throw something carelessly: --
[ + two objects ] Chuck me the keys.
Chuck it over there/into the corner.
1 to end a romantic relationship with someone: --
He's just chucked his girlfriend.
2 a friendly form of address: --
"All right, then, chuck?"
3 a device for holding an object firmly in a machine --
4 to throw something without giving it your attention: --
Chuck me the keys.
5 to end, give up, or leave something: --
How can you chuck an old friendship like that?
Last summer, he chucked his ten-year career as a stockbroker.
We accept that chucking money at it does not resolve the problem.
To buy a bit of social peace among the youth, we are chucking out some of the older workers.
The fact is that this country has a chance now, by chucking the regulations out.
He must know that over a course of years we have just chucked money away in enormous subsidies.
The newspaper headlines were to the effect that she was "chucked out".
The third great deception is that we can improve public services by chucking money at them—that more people on the payroll necessarily means reform.
In my experience, the corps contained many inexperienced lawyers who were chucked in at the deep end.
Here is the richest oilfield in the world, and we have chucked it away!