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Given the chuck, had a restless night? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tossed

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'given' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with contact as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'chuck had a restless night?' is the wordplay.
'chuck' becomes 'toss' (synonyms).
'had' says to put letters next to each other.
'a restless night?' becomes 'ed' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'toss'+'ed'='TOSSED'

'the' is the link.

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(Other definitions for tossed that I've seen before include "Threw up, perhaps salad" , "Pitched" , "Threw up lightly" , "Christian festival" , "Threw casually" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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