chuck | (noun) a holding device consisting of adjustable jaws that center a workpiece in a lathe or center a tool in a drill | - |
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(noun) the part of a forequarter from the neck to the ribs and including the shoulder blade | - |
(noun) informal terms for a meal | Synonyms: chow, eats, grub |
(verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
(verb) throw carelessly | Synonyms: toss |
(verb) pat or squeeze fondly or playfully, especially under the chin | Synonyms: pat |
(verb) throw away | Synonyms: ditch |
chuckhole | (noun) a pit or hole produced by wear or weathering (especially in a road surface) | Synonyms: pothole |
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chuckle | (noun) a soft partly suppressed laugh | Synonyms: chortle |
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(verb) laugh quietly or with restraint | Synonyms: chortle, laugh softly |
chuckwalla | (noun) a herbivorous lizard that lives among rocks in the arid parts of southwestern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: Sauromalus obesus |
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huck | (noun) toweling consisting of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric | Synonyms: huckaback |
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huckaback | (noun) toweling consisting of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric | Synonyms: huck |
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huckleberry | (noun) blue-black berry similar to blueberries and bilberries of the eastern United States | - |
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(noun) any of several shrubs of the genus Gaylussacia bearing small berries resembling blueberries | - |
(noun) any of various dark-fruited as distinguished from blue-fruited blueberries | - |
huckster | (noun) a seller of shoddy goods | Synonyms: cheap-jack |
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(noun) a person who writes radio or tv advertisements | - |
(verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, monger, peddle, pitch, vend |
(verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: chaffer, haggle, higgle |
rockchuck | (noun) heavy-bodied yellowish-brown marmot of rocky areas of western North America | Synonyms: Marmota flaviventris, yellowbelly marmot |
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shuck | (noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: chaff, husk, stalk, straw, stubble |
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(verb) remove the shucks from | - |
(verb) remove from the shell | - |
shucks | (noun) something of little value | Synonyms: damn, darn, hoot, red cent, shit, tinker's dam, tinker's damn |
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(noun) an expression of disappointment or irritation | - |
upchuck | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, vomit, vomit up |
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woodchuck | (noun) reddish brown North American marmot | Synonyms: groundhog, Marmota monax |
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