shuck and jive

present singular third person shucks and jives · participle present shucking and jiving · participle past shucked and jived · past shucked and jived · alternative noun shuck-and-jive

1. derogatoryoffensiveslangTo tell a misleading story, especially for advantage.

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   I also tell Tony to beware of the paths that America's legacy of racism has cleared for him. There's the one for the lazy, the uneducated, criminals, homeless people or those receiving government assistance of some kind. And there's the one for those who can rap or play basketball. And then there's one, perhaps most dangerous and damaging of all, for the folks willing to shuck and jive their way to the top of some diversity-deprived corporation or government-appointed post, compromising chunks of themselves along the way just to "make it."

   2007 January 5, Sufiya Abdur-Rahman, “Growing Up To Be a Black Man”, in washingtonpost.com

plural shucks and jives · plural shuck and jives · alternative noun shuck-and-jive

1. derogatoryoffensiveslanguncountableusuallyDeceit.

   More often than not, the I've-really-paid-my-dues stance adopted by country singers is pure shuck and jive. That's not the case with Hank Williams Jr.

   1979 December 21, “Hank Williams Jr. at the Roxy”, in Los Angeles Times