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huck

verbnounnounverbnounattested in dialogue

  • Ireland//hʊk//
  • //hʌk//

To throw or chuck.

verb

  1. 1

    informalTo throw or chuck.

    He was so angry that he hucked the book at my face.

    So I came up with this plan for Blooey to hit that weak spot! All you, man,!" I said. I waited for a pause in the statue's movements and hucked Blooey up there! And bull's-eye!

    Mostly these portable toilets are just thin molded plastic […] But at construction sites, we sheet-metal the sides. Cladding, it's called. Otherwise, people come along and punch holes through them. […] Or kids will come along and huck rocks through the roofs, just to hear the sound it makes.

  2. 2

    To throw oneself off a large jump or drop.

  3. 3

    To throw one's body in the air, possibly in a way that is ungraceful or lacks skill.

  4. 4

    To throw a frisbee a long distance.

  5. 5

    To make a long throw with the frisbee; to start a point by making such a throw.

  6. 6

    To attempt a particularly big jump or drop, often haphazardly.

    A longer fork makes the bike more cumbersome, but you will be able to huck more stuff.

    If you huck it (the take-off), you'll drop about 20 feet.

  7. 7

    To make a maneuver in a clumsy or poorly planned way.

  8. 8

    To paddle off a waterfall or to boof a big drop.

    I hucked a sweet 25-foot waterfall on the Tomata River.

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps a variant of chuck or hoick.

noun

  1. 1

    A long throw, generally at least half a field in length.

  2. 2

    A drop or jump off a cliff or cornice.

noun

  1. 1

    A person's hip.

Etymology

Backformation from huckle, or from Middle English hoke (“hook”); compare hokebone (“hip”).

verb

  1. 1

    datedTo haggle in trading.

Etymology

From Middle English hukken, related to German höken (“to haggle; traffic”).

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of huqAlternative form of huq.

Forms

plural
hucks
past tense
hucked
past participle
hucked
present participle
hucking
third person singular
hucks
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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