chukker, v. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

chukker v.

also chucker

[Hind. chakra, a wheel, thence v. lit. to revolve or spin, fig. to perplex, confuse, bewilder, agitate, disturb +chukka, the exercising of a polo pony by running it in circles]

1. (Anglo-Ind.) to put someone through their paces.

1828		D’Oyly Tom Raw, Griffin 261: And she'd been broke in like a skittish filly. / With many a lash and chucker from Dame B., / To make her more correct - and not so silly [ibid.] 277: [end note] Chucker is literally a wheel, but, as here used, applies to breaking-in young horses, gallopping or trotting them in a ring or circle.
1890		Kipling ‘On Exhibition’ in Civil & Military Gaz. 21 Feb. (1909) 248: I reflected a moment on the possibility of getting that young gentleman out into a large and dusty maidan and gently chukkering him before chota hazri.

2. to worry, to disturb.

1890

Kipling ‘Letters from Leave’ in Pioneer 17 Sept. (1909) 211: What do you [...] uppose that this people would do if they were chukkered and gubraowed? If they really knew what the fear of death and the dread of injury implied?