Chuck
Chuck verb - To get rid of as useless or unwanted.
Usage example: after the power outage we reluctantly chucked everything that had been sitting in the fridge
Hold
Hold verb - To have or keep in one's hands.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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The game doesn't hold it against you if you let loose a hostile Working Joe or chuck a noisemaker into a group of humans when you know the xenomorph will investigate.
Source: Video Game / Alien: Isolation -
Chuck is younger and still learning what it means to hold to his principles, while Amazing is older and more experienced but still willing to make the sacrifices (personal and career) to stand for what he believes in.
Source: Film / Amazing Grace and Chuck -
In the 1985 Chuck Norris movie Code of Silence, two armed robbers attempt to hold up the bar where all the off-duty cops hang out.
Source: Everyone Is Armed
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