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chuck in en · VERB
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(slang, transitive) To give up, to quit.
So in February 1987, when a colleague suggested it was time to chuck it in, Murphy agreed without emotion. Members who had reached the age of fifty-five or had thirty years of service could now take an early retirement
2009, Adam Shand, The skull: informers, hit men and Australia's toughest cop:Blake shocked everyone by chucking in his job, selling his flat and returning home to take up the flagging reins of the family company.
1995, Miranda Lee, Marriage in Jeopardy:28 May 2000, St. Petersburg Times - The good and the bad of Spanish travel writing Series: BOOKS
Rather he gives a convincing impression of someone who wants to chuck in his old life in England and build a new life, not just a summer villa,
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(slang, transitive) To contribute (something) as a bonus; to throw in (something).
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