chuck out
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chuck out
vb
informal (often foll by: of) to eject forcibly (from); throw out (of): he was chucked out of the lobby.
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| Verb | 1. |  chuck out - throw or cast away; "Put away your worries"cast aside, cast away, discard, throw away, toss away, toss out, throw out, dispose, cast out, put away, fling, toss unlearn - discard something previously learnt, like an old habit deep-six, give it the deep six - toss out; get rid of; "deep-six these old souvenirs!" jettison - throw away, of something encumbering junk, scrap, trash - dispose of (something useless or old); "trash these old chairs"; "junk an old car"; "scrap your old computer" waste - get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer" get rid of, remove - dispose of; "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood" dump - throw away as refuse; "No dumping in these woods!" retire - dispose of (something no longer useful or needed); "She finally retired that old coat" abandon - forsake, leave behind; "We abandoned the old car in the empty parking lot" de-access - dispose of by selling; "the museum sold off its collection of French impressionists to raise money"; "the publishing house sold off one of its popular magazines" close out - terminate by selling off or disposing of; "He closed out his line of sports cars" |
| 2. |  chuck out - put out or expel from a place; "The unruly student was excluded from the game"evict, force out - expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process; "The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months" evict - expel or eject without recourse to legal process; "The landlord wanted to evict the tenants so he banged on the pipes every morning at 3 a.m." show the door - ask to leave; "I was shown the door when I asked for a raise" bounce - eject from the premises; "The ex-boxer's job is to bounce people who want to enter this private club" |
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Translations
w>chuck out
vt sep (inf) → rausschmeißen (inf); useless articles also → wegschmeißen (inf); to be chucked out → rausfliegen (of aus) (inf)
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