"chucker-out" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: chuckers-out [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|chuckers-out}} chucker-out (plural chuckers-out)
  1. (UK, informal) Synonym of bouncer. Tags: UK, informal Synonyms: bouncer [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-chucker-out-en-noun-BKwR6hsx Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1913, D. H. Lawrence, “Baxter Dawes”, in Sons and Lovers, page 345",
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          "ref": "2000, Joseph O'Neill, M. Kelly Lynch, The Black Shore, Bucknell University Press, page 195",
          "text": "[…] a shining angel, but — pitch! — ah now, Mrs. Philip Ederney! There's no denying that the dad's soul mayn't be as white as it would be if he hadn't spent ten years as a chucker-out in a speak-easy in Chicago. Souls get a bit blind and tough in that sort of job and, sure enough, […]",
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          "text": "Then came the end of the turn, when the dummy asked us all to 'kindly rise and give a toast to his Majesty the King', at which Mack didn't stand but shouted, 'Kindly leave off, will you?' I moved along the row of seats towards him. By the time I got to him they were changing the scenery on the stage, and he was having a fight with the chucker-out.",
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          "text": "But the feature of the place was really Abdul, the chucker-out. Abdul was a huge fellow, reputed to be an eunuch, coal-black, shiny, and with biceps that would have made Jack Dempsey cry.",
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