Meaning

• A part of something that has been separated.

  "The statue broke into chunks."

• A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular.

  "a chunk of granite"

• A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a bundle or cluster.

  "examples of chunks would include "in accordance with", "the results of", and "so far""

• A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.

• A segment of a comedian's performance

Meaning

• To break into large pieces or chunks.

• To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.

• To throw.