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chucker-out

chucker-out noun: synonym of bouncer.

Noun

chucker-out (plural chuckers-out)

  1. (UK, informal) Synonym of bouncer.
    • Then Dawes made a remark which caused Paul to throw half a glass of beer in his face. “Oh, Mr. Morel!” cried the barmaid, and she rang the bell for the “chucker-out.”1913, D. H. Lawrence, “Baxter Dawes”, in Sons and Lovers, page 345
    • "An old scrapper don't find many openings. Chucker-out at a pub with free drinks. Nothing doing there."1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
    Synonyms:
    bouncer

Examples of chucker-out in a sentence

  • There's no denying that the dad's soul mayn't be as white as it would be if he hadn't spent ten years as a chucker-out in a speak-easy in Chicago.2000, Joseph O'Neill, M. Kelly Lynch, The Black Shore, Bucknell University Press, →ISBN, page 195:
  • By the time I got to him they were changing the scenery on the stage, and he was having a fight with the chucker-out.2009, Andrew Martin, The Necropolis Railway: A Historical Novel, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:
  • But the feature of the place was really Abdul, the chucker-out.2015, Robin Hyde, Passport to Hell, Auckland University Press, →ISBN, page 97:

Synonyms of chucker-out

Forms of chucker-out

pluralchuckers-out

Questions about chucker-out

What does chucker-out mean?
Chucker-out means synonym of bouncer.
How do you use chucker-out in a sentence?
There's no denying that the dad's soul mayn't be as white as it would be if he hadn't spent ten years as a chucker-out in a speak-easy in Chicago.
What part of speech is chucker-out?
Chucker-out is a noun.
What is the plural of chucker-out?
The plural of chucker-out is chuckers-out.

Words near chucker-out in the dictionary

  1. chucked over
  2. chucked the deuces
  3. chucked up
  4. chucked up the sponge
  5. chucker
  6. chucker-out
  7. chuckers
  8. chuckers-out
  9. chuckey
  10. chuckeys
  11. chuckhole

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