I. Of things.
1. A small pebble used in the game of check-stones or ‘chucks.’ (Cf. CHECKER.)
1760. Chron., in Ann. Reg., 82/1. An old labouring man … was laying on a bench fast asleep, some boys being at play with chuckers … one chuck’d one directly into his mouth.
2. A blow with the fist.
a. 1805. Anstey, Pindar. Ep. Ld. Buckhorse, Poet. Wks. (1808), 155. While you with frequent fist assail’d him, With chuckers in the mazzard nail’d him.
II. Of persons: One who chucks or throws.
3. esp. in Chucker-out (vulgar colloq.), one who ‘chucks out’; applied to a. A bully employed to eject fleeced victims, or persons otherwise objectionable, from a gambling-hell, tavern or brothel.
1884. Gd. Words, June, 400/1. He had done twelve months [in prison] for crippling for life the ‘chucker-out’ of one of these pubs.
1885. All Y. Round, Nov., 222/2. Dens to which Brickey is attached in the capacity of ‘chucker-out.’
b. A fellow engaged to expel disturbers or opponents from a public meeting.
1884. Times, 31 Oct., 8/1. The roughs hired as ‘chuckers-out’ by the Tory party.
1887. Guardian, 2 March, 343/1. Bogus meetings, where the chairman, committee, reporters, audience, and ‘chuckers-out’ were all subsidised.
c. fig.
1880. Punch, No. 2040, 14 Aug., 63/1 (Hoppe). Lord Grey was about to resume his rôle of ‘Chucker-out’ to the proposed measures of his own party.
