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Is chuck a Scrabble word?

Yes, chuck is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 16 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of chuck?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.Examples: "Arm chucks represent approximately 54% of the beef forequarters."; "Often, pieces of the chuck are sold boneless as flat chunks of meat or rolled and tied."; "The chucks are that portion of foresaddle remaining after excluding the hotel rack and plate portions of the breast as described in Item No. 306. The veal foreshanks (Item No. 312) and brisket may either be attached or separated and packaged with the chucks."countableuncountable

2. (US, slang, dated) Food.Examples: "“Hambone, how's for chuck?” Hambone removed pipe from mouth, slowly. “Wal, I reckon I still got a few whistleberries left. Some sonofabitch stew mabbe. A few shot biscuits.”"UScountabledatedslanguncountable

3. (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.Examples: "1824, Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain), Transactions, Volume 42, page 88, I have had a chuck of this kind made in brass with the cones of iron, but it is cumbrous and expensive, and does not answer so well, owing to the surface of the iron offering less resistance to the work turning within it. This, perhaps, might be remedied by roughing; but I think the chuck is much better in wood, as it can be made by any common turner at a trifling expense, and possesses more strength than can possibly be required."; "Iron and steel in contact with magnets retain some of the magnetism, which is sometimes more or less of a nuisance in getting small work off the chucks."; "2003, Julie K. Petersen, “chuck”, entry in Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary, page 181, A fiber optic splicing device may be equipped with V-grooves or chucks to hold the two pieces of fiber optic filament to be spliced. If it has chucks, they are typically either clamping chucks or vacuum chucks."countableuncountable

noun (English)

1. (dialect, obsolete) A chicken, a hen.dialectalobsolete

2. (slang) A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.Examples: "Are you all right, chuck?"; "Pray, chuck, come hither."slang

verb (English)

1. (obsolete) To chuckle; to laugh.Examples: "Who would not chuck to see such pleasing sport. To see such troupes of gallants still resort unto Cornutos shop."obsolete

noun (English)

1. (informal) A casual throw.informal

2. (cricket, informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action.informal

3. (slang) An act or instance of vomiting.slang

4. (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 (English)

1. (transitive, informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.Examples: "Chuck that magazine to me, would you?"Synonyms: fling, hurl, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dashinformaltransitive

2. (intransitive, cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.intransitive

3. (transitive, informal) To discard, to throw away.Examples: "This food's gone off - you'd better chuck it."; "When Dangerfield put the little roll in his hand, Irons looked suspicious and frightened, and balanced it in his palm, as if he had thoughts of chucking it from him, as though it were literally a satanic douceur. But it is hard to part with money, and Irons, though he still looked cowed and unhappy, put the money into his breeches' pocket, and he made a queer bow […]"Synonyms: chuck out, junk, 86, bin, can, cast aside, cast off, cast awayinformaltransitive

4. (transitive, informal) To jilt; to dump.Examples: "She's chucked me for another man!"informaltransitive

5. (transitive, informal, dated) To give up; to stop doing; to quit.Examples: ""When he got religion old Joe stuck every penny away in the Savings Bank, and when he chucked religion he'd draw out the lot and go on a bender that landed him in the horrors, like as not.""datedinformaltransitive

6. (intransitive, slang) To vomit.Synonyms: throw up, bait, barf, be sick, blow chunks, boak, boke, bootintransitiveslang

noun (English)

1. (Scotland) A small pebble.Scotland

2. (Scotland, obsolete, slang, in the plural) Money.Scotlandin-pluralobsoleteslang

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "chuck"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "chuck"?

Scrabble
16 points
C3
H4
U1
C3
K5
Words With Friends
18 points
C4
H3
U2
C4
K5

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