huck
See also: Huck
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hʌk/
- Rhymes: -ʌk
Etymology 1
Unknown. Perhaps a variant of chuck.
Verb
huck (third-person singular simple present hucks, present participle hucking, simple past and past participle hucked)
- (transitive, informal) To throw or chuck.
- He was so angry that he hucked the book at my face.
- Stephen King, A Very Tight Place
- 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.
- (transitive, Ultimate Frisbee) To throw a long way.
- (mountain biking) 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.
- (mountain biking) To make a maneuver in a clumsy or poorly planned way.
- (transitive, whitewater kayaking) To paddle off a waterfall or to boof a big drop.
- I hucked a sweet 25-foot waterfall on the Tomata River.
- 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.
Noun
huck (plural hucks)
- (Ultimate Frisbee) A long throw, generally at least half a field in length.
- (skiing, snowboarding) A drop or jump off a cliff or cornice.
- (dialectal) A person's hip.
Related terms
- (hip): huckle
Etymology 2
From Middle English hukken, related to German höken (“to haggle; traffic”).
Verb
huck (third-person singular simple present hucks, present participle hucking, simple past and past participle hucked)
- (dated) To haggle in trading.
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