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chuck up en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (New-Zealand, UK, intransitive, slang, transitive) To vomit; throw up.
    • Take it easy on the roller coasters or you're going to chuck up your lunch.
    • She got ridiculously drunk last night and chucked up in the back of the minicab on the way home.
  2. (dated, intransitive, transitive) To chuck up the sponge; to give up; to admit defeat; to break a contract; to abandon or quit (something).
    • He sounded quite excited, as if he were deriving some vicarious pleasure from the anticipated outcome of my efforts, and I hadn't the heart to tell him how, at that precise moment, I was feeling quite ready to chuck up the whole thing. 2014, Robert Purvis, Three Men Called Josiah, →ISBN, page 70:
    • But when you've tried it once or twice, And do not find it over nice, If it's dear at any price, Chuck it up. If it's not a paying game, Not worth the candle — all the same, Chuck it up. 1891, Gems from Our Village, page 62:
    • With a renewed sense of purpose, Logan was ready to chuck up the day as a waste until he stepped into the parlour of their home and almost bumped into a slinky, dark-skinned girl in a cotton docket and lappa, with a mid-leg slit on one side. 2013, Pede Hollist, “Foreign Aid”, in A Memory This Size and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing, →ISBN, page 40:
    • What worried me was the sense of being up against something inhumanly formidable and wise and strong. I believed I was willing to own defeat and chuck up the game. 1919, John Buchan, Mr. Standfast:
    • I've never brought off a really big coup yet; when I do I shall chuck it up. 2014, E. W. Hornung, Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman, →ISBN:
  3. (archaic, slang) To be released from prison.

Forms

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

Deriveds

chuck up the sponge

Relateds

chalk up · chalk up to

Synonyms

jack up · upchuck · throw in the towel · throw up · chuck in · jig up

Translations (4)

fr laisser tout en plan (to give up or abandon (something)) · fi oksentaa (to vomit) · es chuñar (to vomit) · da kaste op (to vomit)