Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to abandon, to stop an action, to dismiss, to throw over, to jilt.

1869		Daily Tel. 6 Sept. n.p.: ‘Season at Baden.’ [...] do they ‘pitch’ on the petticoats, and give three cheers and have a beer when they finish the work by chucking up the dress? [F&H].
1877		J. Greenwood Dick Temple II 251: I’ve felt like chucking up the whole game.
1881		Bulletin (Sydney) 12 Mar. 9/1: I chucked up my billet and made tracks for here.
1884		Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday 10 May14/2: ‘[C]huck it up, young ’un [...] you’ve no more tune in you than a three-legged stool’.
1885		W.H. Stead ‘Forcing of Unwilling Maids’ in Pall Mall Gazette in Metropolitan Poor III 35: ‘It gave me such a sickening,’ said the junior partner, ‘that I was almost going to chuck up the business.’.
1890		‘F. Anstey’ Voces Populi 63: He [... ] strolls out leaving the Y.B. to cherish wild thoughts of ‘chucking up’ the Bar.
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 17: Jacked Up (or chucked up), suddenly leaving off doing work.
1898		Hall & Powell ‘Faifless Liz’ 🎵 I never fought she'd chuck me up or make my love a joke.
1899–1900		H. Lawson ‘Golden Graveyard’ in Roderick (1972) 343: Why don’t you chuck up that dust-hole and go up country.
1900		Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Jan. 32/4: Voice of Jackeroo [...] ‘For God’s sake chuck that up; it makes a man think of blanky old things!’.
1911		Gem 2 Dec. 20: We’re not going to chuck up the bizney so long as there’s a ghost of a chance left.
1912		Sport (Adelaide) 3 Feb. 7/2: Georgie has chucked up his new ‘tart’ — the ‘White Elephant’ — and gone back to his old love.
1914		R. Tressell Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1955) 173: Several of them spoke of ‘chucking up’ at once; but others were more prudent, for they knew that if they did leave there were dozens of others who would be eager to take their places.
1914		G. Herriman Dingbat Family 21 Mar. [synd. cartoon strip] Don’t chuck up your jobs to go on this ‘expedition’.
c.1921		T. Norman Penny Showman 12: Anyway, I chucked her up.
1935		(con. 1920s) McArthur & Long No Mean City 304: Ah’ve just chucked up trying to be something, an’ Ah’m going tae do something instead.
1940		P. Larkin letter 20 Dec. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 5: The idea is that ‘trust in life’ idea that I vaguely said would take care of you if you did some violent act & released central control. In other words, if you chucked up the trouble and spanged back against the core.
1955		P. Larkin ‘Poetry of Departures’ in Less Deceived 34: Sometimes you hear, fifth-hand, / As epitaph: / He chucked up everything / And just cleared off.
1970		A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 22: He’s got his eyes on another girl and he’s wondering whether to chuck you up.

2. (UK Und.) to be released from prison; thus as n., a release.

1884		Wkly Freeman’s Jrnl 20 Dec. 7/6: After I was chucked up I did a snatch near St Paul’s, was collared, lagged and got this bit of seve nstretch.
1886		W. Newton Secrets of Tramp Life Revealed 14: He probably gets liberated, or as they term it ‘chucked up’.
1923		J.C. Goodwin ‘Criminal Sl.’ in Sidelights on Criminal Matters 165: When he was chucked up he cracked a beak’s chat and got his six doss.
1943		J. Phelan Letters from the Big House 36: Funny though, waiting for a chuck-up, fourteen stretch ago, and now still here.
1950		P. Hoskins No Hiding Place! 189/2: Chucked up. Released from prison.