huck
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 4
/hʌk/
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/hʌk/ · /hʊk/
Definition of huck
13 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(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
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(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.”
- To throw oneself off a large jump or drop.
- To throw one's body in the air, possibly in a way that is ungraceful or lacks skill.
- (transitive)To throw a frisbee a long distance.
- (intransitive)To make a long throw with the frisbee; to start a point by making such a throw.
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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.”
- To make a maneuver in a clumsy or poorly planned way.
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(transitive)To paddle off a waterfall or to boof a big drop.
“I hucked a sweet 25-foot waterfall on the Tomata River.”
- (dated)To haggle in trading.
noun
- A long throw, generally at least half a field in length.
- A drop or jump off a cliff or cornice.
- (dialectal)A person's hip.
name
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Unknown. Perhaps a variant of chuck or hoick.
Hooks
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