Chuck

Quick meaning: Chuck is a noun meaning (cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.

Meaning

(cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.

More Meanings

1. (US, slang, dated) Food.
2. To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning.
3. To bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
4. (dialect, obsolete) A chicken, a hen.
5. A clucking sound.
6. (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.
7. (slang) A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.

Example Sentences

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 first step in preparing a test specimen with the FlexPrepᵀᴹ is to secure the gyratory specimen in the chuck of the machine.

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.

Word Forms

• chucks
• chucking
• chucked

Synonyms for chuck

Depending on context, synonyms include chuckie, chucky, chuckstone, chuckiestone, fling, hurl.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chow, eats, cat, ditch, spew, grub.

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