shuck

plural shucks · alternative dialectal shock

1. The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).

   There was no linen, no pillow, and when she touched the mattress it gave forth the faint dry whisper of shucks.

   1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 46

2. slangAfrican-American VernacularA fraud; a scam.
3. slangA phony.

present singular third person shucks · participle present shucking · participle past shucked · past shucked · alternative dialectal shock

1. transitiveTo remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).

   Shall we shuck walnuts?

2. transitiveTo remove (any outer covering).

   I will shuck my clothes and dive naked into the pool.

   1 more example

   [...] but what had actually happened was that the wheel of one of the coaches became detached from its axle, or, in the more expressive American argot, the train "shucked off a wheel near Everett."

   1941 April, “Notes and News: The Reason Why”, in Railway Magazine, page 182

3. slangtransitivecomputingTo remove (an external hard drive or solid-state drive) from its casing so that it can be used inside another device.
4. intransitiveslangtransitiveTo fool; to hoax.

present singular third person shucks · participle present shucking · participle past shucked · past shucked

1. dialectalTo shake; shiver.
2. dialectalTo slither or slip, move about, wriggle.
3. dialectalTo do hurriedly or in a restless way.
4. dialectalTo avoid; baffle, outwit, shirk.
5. dialectalTo walk at a slow trot.

plural shucks

1. EuropeanartsA supernatural and generally malevolent black dog in English folklore.

   Synonyms: padfoot, shriker

plural Shucks

1. A surname.