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chukka

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Definition:
One of the six playing periods, each 7½ minutes long, of a game of polo.

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he saw me on the polo ground of the Phoenix park at the match All Ireland versus the Rest of Ireland. My eyes, I know, shone divinely as I watched Captain Slogger Dennehy of the Inniskillings win the final chukkar on his darling cob Centaur.

James Joyce. Ulysses
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Melchett: Ah, tally-ho, yippety-dip, and zing zang spillip. Looking forward to bullying off for the final chukka?
Blackadder: Permission to speak.
[Baldrick stands there, dumbfounded]
Blackadder: Answer the General Baldrick!
Baldrick: I can't answer him sir, I don't know what he's talking about.

BBC. Blackadder, season 4: Captain Cook
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Hyacinth: [to Elizabeth] I'm afraid you've just caught us sneaking off for a chukka of golf.

BBC. Keeping Up Appearances: A Job for Richard (1993)
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