huckとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Unknown. Perhaps a variant of chuck or hoick.

動詞

huck (third-person singular simple present hucks, present participle hucking, simple past and past participle hucked)

1. (transitive, informal) To throw or chuck.

   Synonyms: fling, hurl; see also Thesaurus:throw

   He was so angry that he hucked the book at my face.

   • 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport:

     So I came up with this plan for Blooey to hit that weak spot! All you, man,!" I said. I waited for a pause in the statue's movements and hucked Blooey up there! And bull's-eye!

   • 2008, Stephen King, A Very Tight Place:

     Mostly these portable toilets are just thin molded plastic […] But at construction sites, we sheet-metal the sides. Cladding, it's called. Otherwise, people come along and punch holes through them. […] Or kids will come along and huck rocks through the roofs, just to hear the sound it makes.

2. To throw oneself off a large jump or drop.
3. To throw one's body in the air, possibly in a way that is ungraceful or lacks skill.
4. (transitive, Ultimate Frisbee) To throw a frisbee a long distance.
5. (intransitive, Ultimate Frisbee) To make a long throw with the frisbee; to start a point by making such a throw.
6. (mountain biking) To attempt a particularly big jump or drop, often haphazardly.

   A longer fork makes the bike more cumbersome, but you will be able to huck more stuff.

   If you huck it (the take-off), you'll drop about 20 feet.

7. (mountain biking) To make a maneuver in a clumsy or poorly planned way.
8. (transitive, whitewater kayaking) To paddle off a waterfall or to boof a big drop.

   I hucked a sweet 25-foot waterfall on the Tomata River.

派生語

名詞

huck (plural hucks)

1. (Ultimate Frisbee) A long throw, generally at least half a field in length.
2. (skiing, snowboarding) A drop or jump off a cliff or cornice.

語源 2

Backformation from huckle, or from 中期英語 hoke (“hook”); compare hokebone (“hip”).

名詞

huck (plural hucks)

1. (dialect) A person's hip.

関連する語

• huckle

語源 3

From 中期英語 hukken, related to German höken (“to haggle; traffic”).

動詞

huck (third-person singular simple present hucks, present participle hucking, simple past and past participle hucked)

1. (dated) To haggle in trading.

アナグラム

• CUHK, HKCU