chukka Polo.
(ˈtʃʌkə)
Also chucker, chukker.
[Hind. chakar, chakkar, = Skr. cakra circle, wheel.]
Each of the ‘periods’ into which the game is divided.
| 1898 W. A. Morgan et al. House on Sport 221 It is difficult to get more than two or three periods, or ‘chuckers’ as they call them, in the afternoon. 1900 Overland Mail 13 Aug. (Y.), In the opening chukker Capt. ― carried the ball in. 1906 T. B. Drybrough Polo (ed. 2) 283 The ‘period’ does not end—except in the case of the last chukker— till the ball goes out of play. 1922 Joyce Ulysses 458, I watched Captain Slogger Dennehy..win the final chucker on his darling cob Centaur. 1923 Daily Mail 22 May 3 Four goals to one team in one chukker is very unusual in first-class polo. 1955 Times 9 May 14/4 Cowdray wiped off the start early in the first chukka. |
b. attrib., as chukka boot, an ankle-high leather boot, as worn by polo players.
| 1948 Men's Reporter Mar. 62 The suede chukka boot with moccasin front, heavy crepe sole. 1959 J. Braine Vodi i. 26 In his clerical grey suit and his chukka boots. 1962 J. Fleming When I grow Rich vi. 86 He liked the things money bought, Paris, Jaguar cars, chukka boots. 1968 Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 29 Nov. 20/3 ‘I introduced the Teddy lark down our street,’ he recalls. ‘I was the first to wear the Eton Clubman chukka-boot with the one-and-three-quarter-inch crepe sole.’ |