Chucked

TO BE CHUCKED or CHUCKED UP, verbal phr. (thieves’).—1.  To escape committal; to be acquitted or released.

  1887.  J. W. HORSLEY, Jottings from Jail, Rit from 7 dials; remanded innocent on two charges of pokes, only out 2 weeks for a drag, expects to be fullied or else CHUCKED.

  1889.  Evening News [quoted in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, p. 251, col. 1]. When I was CHUCKED up they took me to an old Jew’s in Dudley Street for my clothes.

  1889.  Answers, 9 Feb. He was fortunate enough to get CHUCKED, to escape, that is to say, as the evidence against him was not strong enough.

  2.  (common).—[Generally CHUCKED OUT.] To be forcibly ejected. [From CHUCK, verb, sense 1, + ED + OUT.] Cf., CHUCKER-OUT.

  3.  (common).—Slightly intoxicated. For synonyms, see SCREWED.

  1889.  Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday, Aug. 17, p. 258, col. 2. His back being nearly broken from your constantly falling over him when you’ve been CHUCKED.

  4.  (prostitutes’).—Amorous; and hence ‘fast.’ French, galoper une femme = to make hot love to a woman. Cf., MOLROWER.

  FRENCH SYNONYMS.  S’allumer or allumer son pétrole or son gaz (the first of these terms is in general use, the others being employed chiefly by prostitutes); battre du beurre (popular: used more in the sense of ‘to be fast,’ but also = to speculate on ’Change and to dissemble).

  GERMAN SYNONYM.  Spannen (to ogle prostitutes; to waylay women in order to make overtures; generally to lear with concupiscence).

  SPANISH SYNONYMS.  Apacentar (properly to tend cattle); desbeber (also = to make water); despepitarse (literally to give a loose to one’s tongue or to act imprudently); rabanillo (m = an ardent longing).

  5.  (common).—To be disappointed; put out in one’s calculations; put to shame; ‘sold.’

  c. 1879.  Broadside Ballad. ‘CHUCKED again.’