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chucker 1[chuhk-er] ExamplesWord Origin noun Baseball.
- a pitcher.
Origin of chucker 1 1750–60, for literal sense; chuck1 + -er1 chucker 2[chuhk-er] noun Informal.
Origin of chucker 2 (wood)chuck + -er1 Examples from the Web for chucker Historical Examples of chucker
He wants to be an ecclesiastical “chucker out,” and cope with Mr. Kensitt and Co.
Andrew Lang
So they chatted along quite friendly and chucker like till they came to a cross road, and Nick wished the exciseman good bye.
Highways & Byways in Sussex
E.V. Lucas
My eyes had not deceived me, for there was the protg behind the counter in his new capacity of barman and ‘chucker out.’
Howard Pease
At about eleven o’clock a “chucker out” would go down and clear out all the gentlemen who had not paid in advance for the night.
Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
The tall man had just arrived and was talking to a wisp of a creature facetiously known in the office as “the chucker out.”
Charles de Crspigny
British Dictionary definitions for chucker chucker noun
- a person who throws something
- cricket informal a bowler whose arm action is illegal