"chuck off" meaning in English

See chuck off in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: chucks off [present, singular, third-person], chucking off [participle, present], chucked off [participle, past], chucked off [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} chuck off (third-person singular simple present chucks off, present participle chucking off, simple past and past participle chucked off)
  1. (informal) To evict someone, e.g. from a form of transport, perhaps for unruly behaviour, or because the final destination has been reached. Tags: informal Related terms: chuck out, throw off
    Sense id: en-chuck_off-en-verb-nWAcOeGA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (off)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for chuck off meaning in English (1.7kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chucks off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chucking off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chucked off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chucked off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "chuck off (third-person singular simple present chucks off, present participle chucking off, simple past and past participle chucked off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, page 68",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To evict someone, e.g. from a form of transport, perhaps for unruly behaviour, or because the final destination has been reached."
      ],
      "id": "en-chuck_off-en-verb-nWAcOeGA",
      "links": [
        [
          "evict",
          "evict"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) To evict someone, e.g. from a form of transport, perhaps for unruly behaviour, or because the final destination has been reached."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "chuck out"
        },
        {
          "word": "throw off"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chuck off"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chucks off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chucking off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chucked off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chucked off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "chuck off (third-person singular simple present chucks off, present participle chucking off, simple past and past participle chucked off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "chuck out"
    },
    {
      "word": "throw off"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, page 68",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To evict someone, e.g. from a form of transport, perhaps for unruly behaviour, or because the final destination has been reached."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "evict",
          "evict"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) To evict someone, e.g. from a form of transport, perhaps for unruly behaviour, or because the final destination has been reached."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chuck off"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.