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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

chuck off en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (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:
  2. (Australia, New-Zealand, slang) To insult or verbally abuse (someone); to tease, sneer at or demean (someone).

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
chucking off Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
chucks off Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
chucked off Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
chucked off Tense=Past lexicographic

Relateds

throw off · chuck out