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1876. Besant and Rice, Golden Butterfly, ch. xviii. Next to unlimited chucking of his own money, the youthful Englishman would like—what he never gets—the unlimited chucking of other people's.
5. (old).—To desire (sexually); to be 'warm,' or a hot member (q.v.).
To chuck, chuck it, or chuck up, verbal phr. To abandon; 'turn up'; dismiss; turn out of doors; to give up. Also chuck it up = 'drop it.' [From the custom of throwing up the sponge at a prize fight in sign of defeat. Often corrupted into jack up.—See Sponge. A French equivalent is laisser tout en plan.
1869. Daily Telegraph, 6 Sept. 'Season at Baden.' Why is it that English-women can never combine their colours, or put on their clothes? Are their maids used to haymaking when at home, and do they 'pitch' on the petticoats, and give three cheers and have beer when they finish the work by chucking up the dress?
1883. Hawley Smart, Hard Lines, ch, xxvi. 'But here, Cis, if you mean business, take my advice and chuck that corps.'
1883. Miss Braddon, Phantom Fortune, ch. xxv. She knows on which side her bread is buttered. Look how easily she chucked you up because she did not think you good enough.
TO GET or GIVE THE CHUCK, phr.—To dismiss, or be dismissed, Cf., bag and sack.
1889. Sporting Times [quoted in Slang, Jargon, and Cant]. And I shall get the blooming chuck as well as fourteen days.
Chuck up the sponge.—See Sponge.
To chuck [oneself] about or into, phr.—To move expeditiously. For synonyms, see Amputate and Skedaddle. Also, to fall into.
1860. Funny Fellow, 7 May, p. 1. Hollo, my kiddy, stir your stumps, And chuck yourself about.
Chuck her up, phr. (cricket).—An expression of delight. [From the practice of throwing the ball into the air after a successful catch.]
[The verb, to chuck, is attached in an active sense to any number of objectives, and may be taken as equivalent to 'to perform' or 'do.' Thus 'to chuck a fag' = to 'give a beating'; to 'chuck a turd' = to 'rear,' to evacuate; to 'chuck a tread' = to have intercourse; to 'chuck a jolly' = to undertake a bout of chaff; to 'chuck a fit' = to have an epileptic, or apoplectic, seizure; to 'chuck a cram' or 'a kid' = to lie, etc.]
Hard-chuck (pigeon fanciers').—A long distance; also a trying flight. From Gravesend to London is considered a hard-chuck, as the low, flat country is bare of landmarks.
Chuck a Curly, verbal phr. (military).—To
feign sickness; to
malinger. [For possible derivation,
see general remarks on
Chuck, in a preceding paragraph,
+ curly, 'doubling up,' or
writhing, as in pain.]
Chuck a Jolly, verbal phr. (costermongers').—To
bear up or 'bonnet':
as when a costermonger
praises the inferior article his
mate or partner is trying to sell.
This process is usually commenced
with a chi-ike (q.v.). Also to
undertake a bout of chaff.
Chuck a Stall, verb phr. (thieves').—To
attract a person's attention
while a confederate picks his
pockets, or otherwise robs him.
[Stall = an accomplice; and as a
verb, to keep watch or spy upon.]
1884. Greenwood, Seven Years' Penal Servitude. I said to my pal 'chuck me a stall and I'll have that.' What
