See chuck up in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1891, Gems from Our Village, page 62:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1919, John Buchan, Mr. Standfast:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2013, Pede Hollist, “Foreign Aid”, in A Memory This Size and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing, →ISBN, page 40:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2014, Robert Purvis, Three Men Called Josiah, →ISBN, page 70:",
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"(dated, transitive and intransitive) To chuck up the sponge; to give up; to admit defeat; to break a contract; to abandon or quit (something)."
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"To be released from prison."
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"text": "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.",
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"text": "I've never brought off a really big coup yet; when I do I shall chuck it up.",
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},
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"ref": "2014, Robert Purvis, Three Men Called Josiah, →ISBN, page 70:",
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