Chuck and Hold

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 is an antonym for chuck in throw out topic.

Nearby Words: chucked, chuckle, chucking, chuckled

Hold

Hold verb - To have or keep in one's hands.

Chuck is an antonym for hold.

Nearby Words: holding, holder, holdback

Common collocations

people chuck people hold people
body chuck body hold body
amount chuck amount hold amount
piece chuck piece hold piece
Other words: way, head, weapon, ball, items, times.

Both words in one sentence

  • Video Game / Alien: Isolation 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.
  • Film / Amazing Grace and Chuck 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.
  • Everyone Is Armed 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.
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