huck

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
14
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/hʌk/
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/hʌk/ · /hʊk/

Definition of huck

13 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (informal, transitive)To 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.”
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verb

  1. (informal, transitive)To 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. To throw oneself off a large jump or drop.
  3. To throw one's body in the air, possibly in a way that is ungraceful or lacks skill.
  4. (transitive)To throw a frisbee a long distance.
  5. (intransitive)To make a long throw with the frisbee; to start a point by making such a throw.
  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. To make a maneuver in a clumsy or poorly planned way.
  8. (transitive)To paddle off a waterfall or to boof a big drop.
    “I hucked a sweet 25-foot waterfall on the Tomata River.”
  9. (dated)To haggle in trading.

noun

  1. A long throw, generally at least half a field in length.
  2. A drop or jump off a cliff or cornice.
  3. (dialectal)A person's hip.

name

  1. A surname.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps a variant of chuck or hoick.

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