chack
A snack or light hasty meal.
Noun
- A snack or light hasty meal.
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Noun Cornwall, obsolete
- A cheek (part of the face).
- I'll scatt his chacks, the emprent, saucy dog. - 1865, Robert Hunt, Popular Romances of the West of England, page 281:
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Verb Entry 3
- To toss up the head frequently, as a horse to avoid the restraint of the bridle.
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Verb Entry 4
- Of birds: to make a sudden harsh call.
- Fieldfares which chacked as they rose from berried hedgerows and isolated thorns were in their winter quarters; they had yet to face a long sea crossing to nest. - 1967, A year with the curlews: life on the Northern...
Origin
Imitative.
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Verb Entry 5
- To not broadcast a medal-winning or otherwise memorable or crucial figure skating performance. This only occurs in a live broadcast because the network has to decide which programs to show and which to cut in the interest of time. If a skater is low in the rankings and several big names are set to skate later, that performance may be cut.
- Michael Chack pulled WAY up in the standings in his long [skate event]...but was chacked while we saw five guys skate worse!! - 1998, Louis Epstein, “US National Men's Final RESULTS”, in rec.sport.skating.ice.figure...
- I'm hoping ABC doesn't chack her performance...how could they?? - 2002, Jonas, International Skating Union Discussion Boards: Figure Skating: Yukari Nakano, the reigning world jr silver medalist, landed a triple axel:
- Did they chack Kostner's skate because of the fluff piece on the Russian pairs or not? I kind of like her and wanted to see her. - 2004, Rex, “The Rest of Skate Canada: Phaneuf Rocks! The First Time I saw the Two...
Origin
From Michael Chack, an American figure skater whose bronze-medal-winning performance at the 1993 US National Championships was not broadcast on television because the producers did not think he would win a medal.