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chuck out

British  

verb

  1. informal to eject forcibly (from); throw out (of)

    he was chucked out of the lobby

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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I figured out how many photos that was going to be and just had to chuck out about 100 photos.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2025

No, it’s not the same motion offense Knight popularized in the 1970s but May didn’t just chuck out a playbook and start over.

From Seattle Times Nov. 2, 2023

"It's a consumer world we live in, a throw away history we seem to chuck out in our bins, but the history is actually among those very items," he says.

From BBC May 26, 2022

With plenty of flat land and rich soil, the British could afford to chuck out their excreta, and so they did.

From Salon Dec. 21, 2021

Let's chuck out some of this slush that you've been publishing just because the writers are related to the Skoopdoodles of Skoopdoodle County.

From Options by Henry, O.

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