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chuck off

chuck off verb: to evict someone, e.g. from a form of transport, perhaps for unruly behaviour, or because the final destination has been reached.

Verb

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

  1. (informal) To evict someone, e.g. from a form of transport, perhaps for unruly behaviour, or because the final destination has been reached.
    • Even when the Circle was whole, I used often to be chucked off its trains at Edgware Road because something had gone wrong. Now - just to make this clear - it is impossible to negotiate the north-west corner of the Circle without being chucked off at Edgware Road.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 68
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To insult or verbally abuse (someone); to tease, sneer at or demean (someone).

Forms of chuck off

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

Questions about chuck off

What does chuck off mean?
Chuck off means to evict someone, e.g. from a form of transport, perhaps for unruly behaviour, or because the final destination has been reached.
What part of speech is chuck off?
Chuck off is a verb.
What is the past tense of chuck off?
The past tense of chuck off is chucked off.

Words near chuck off in the dictionary

  1. chuck it down
  2. chuck it in
  3. chuck it up
  4. chuck key
  5. chuck keys
  6. chuck off
  7. chuck one's toys out of the cot
  8. chuck one's toys out of the pram
  9. chuck out
  10. chuck over
  11. chuck rib

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