Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb chuck_up_the_sponge

1 sense of chuck up the sponge

Sense 1
drop out, give up, fall by the wayside, drop by the wayside, throw in, throw in the towel, quit, chuck up the sponge -- (give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat; "In the second round, the challenger gave up")