chucking off
chucking off is the present participle and gerund of chuck off.
Meaning of chuck off
Verb
chuck off (third-person singular simple present chucks off, present participle chucking off, simple past and past participle chucked off)
- 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
- To insult or verbally abuse (someone); to tease, sneer at or demean (someone).
Questions about chucking off
- What is chucking off the present participle and gerund of?
- Chucking off is the present participle and gerund of chuck off.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: chucking off (page history and authors); chuck off (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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