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chucks off

chucks off is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 chucks off

What is chucks off the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Chucks off is the third-person singular simple present indicative of chuck off.

Words near chucks off in the dictionary

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

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