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chuck off en · VERB
Meanings
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(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:
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(Australia, New-Zealand, slang) To insult or verbally abuse (someone); to tease, sneer at or demean (someone).
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Relateds
throw off · chuck out