1876. Hindley, Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack, p. 192. Mo and
his man were having a great breakfast one morning ... Mo exclaimed
to his man, ‘Chuck rumbo (eat plenty), my lad.’
3. (pigeon fanciers’).—To despatch a pigeon. Cf., sense 1, and To chuck
it; also Hard chuck.
4. (general).—To spend extravagantly. For synonyms, see Ducks and
Drakes.
1876. Besant and Rice, Golden Butterfly, ch. xviii. Next to
unlimited chucking of his own money, the youthful Englishman would
like—what he never gets—the unlimited chucking of other people’s.