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chuck it

chuck it verb: to run away; scram.

Verb

chuck it (third-person singular simple present chucks it, present participle chucking it, simple past and past participle chucked it)

  1. (dated, slang) To run away; scram.
    • They shut themselves up in the room opposite from ten till twelve and nothing happened. I was watching the window with a pair of opera-glasses from an empty flat here—85 Northanger. Then they chucked it, and before they could have been down the steps the light was there […]1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC
  2. (idiomatic) To rain heavily
    Synonyms:
    chuck it down

Synonyms of chuck it

Forms of chuck it

third-person singular presentchucks it
present participlechucking it
past participlechucked it
pastchucked it

Questions about chuck it

What does chuck it mean?
Chuck it means to run away; scram.
What part of speech is chuck it?
Chuck it is a verb.
What is the past tense of chuck it?
The past tense of chuck it is chucked it.

Words near chuck it in the dictionary

  1. Chuck Cunningham syndrome
  2. chuck down
  3. Chuck E. Cheese
  4. chuck full
  5. chuck in
  6. chuck it
  7. chuck it down
  8. chuck it in
  9. chuck it up
  10. chuck key
  11. chuck keys

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