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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)

  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).

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.

Words near chucking off in the dictionary

  1. chucking down
  2. chucking in
  3. chucking it down
  4. chucking it in
  5. chucking it up
  6. chucking off
  7. chucking one's toys out of the cot
  8. chucking out
  9. chucking over
  10. chucking the deuces
  11. chucking up

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