chuck off

English

Verb

chuck off (third-person singular simple present chucks off, present participle chucking off, simple past and past participle chucked off)

1. (informal) To evict someone, e.g. from a form of transport, perhaps for unruly behaviour, or because the final destination has been reached.
   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 68:

     Even when the Circle was whole, I used often to be chucked off its trains at Edgware Road because something had gone wrong. Now - just to make this clear - it is impossible to negotiate the north-west corner of the Circle without being chucked off at Edgware Road.

2. (slang, Australia, New Zealand) To insult or verbally abuse (someone); to tease, sneer at or demean (someone).

Related terms

• chuck out
• throw off