huck

v. to throw, to toss, to short-arm; in disc-based sports, to throw for distance; in cycling, kayaking, snowboarding, and similar sports, to ride over a drop-off. Subjects: English

Editorial Note: This term is probably related to chuck ‘to throw with a short arm motion.’ There is a sense of hawk ‘to let fly’ with a single citation in the Oxford English Dictionary.

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Citations: 1989 Virginia Myers Kelly Washington Post (Aug. 11) “Disk Drive” p. N7: It means you’ve just “hucked” (thrown long) to the perfect spot. 1990 David M. Stokes Usenet: alt.boomerang (Nov. 11) “Still waiting…”: I have to confess to having also experienced the thrill and Zen-like experience of hucking some hand crafted cellulosian creation aloft. 1992 Martha Brooks Two Moons in August (Jan. 1) p. 32: “Don’t count on it. Think fast, Stafford,” cackled the idiot, hucking an eraser at him. 1996 James Campion Deep Tank Jersey (July 3) p. 356: A dark, thin, pre-teen hucking an old amplifier up the metal stairs of a neighbor’s pool deck. 1997 Michael O'Brien Strangers and Sojourners (Apr. 1) p. 174: She walked and talked early and was shamelessly domestic but just as at home in the barn hucking manure at her brother. 2002 Sean Cliver Jackass (Oct.) p. 137: He joined Tremaine in hucking oranges at Steve-O’s bobbing head. 2003 Gloria Beim Female Athlete’s Body Book (Apr. 2) p. 83: They try to take big air off cliffs and sometimes land against immovable objects, such as trees. The snowboarders call this “hucking carcass.” Hucking carcass means they find the steepest drop and the biggest cliff to take the biggest air. I call it taking hospital air. 2003 Todd Richards P3 : Pipes, Parks, and Powder (Dec. 1) p. 4: Sometimes, I’d turn into the six-million-dollar runt, running through the shallow water, bending seaweed as if it were steel, and hucking the cooler all over the beach. 2004 Tim McHugh Poet Chronicles (May) p. 254: He swings it several times before hucking it toward the stage. 2004 Tyler Williams Whitewater Classics (May) p. 171: Her descent of 78-foot Sahalie Falls in Oregon was a world record until waterfall hucking came into vogue in the months following her run. 2004 Leonard Zinn Zinn’s Cycling Primer (June 1) p. 34: The first thing you must know before hucking yourself off a drop-off is which foot is your “chocolate foot.”

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what is the meaning of huck and on which day it is celebrate

by anuj 07 Mar 07, 0946 GMT

I live in a tiny village called Hucking (near Maidstone, Kent. UK). It is a scarcely populated farming area, high on the North Downs. How would it have got its name?

by K Smith 19 Mar 08, 1215 GMT