hucklebuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌkl.bʌk/
Forms: form: hucklebucks
Etymology: The dance is perhaps from huckle (“hip”) + buck.
Senses: examples: text: 1948, Paul Williams, The hucklebuck, quoted in Talkin' that talk (1986), page 168
text: It's the dance you should know, when the lights are down low, / Grab your baby, then go, do the hucklebuck, do the hucklebuck, / If you don't know how to do it, boy, you're out of luck, / Push your partner out, then you hunch your back, / Have a little movement in your sacroiliac, / Wiggle like a snake, wobble like a duck, / That's the way you do it when you do the hucklebuck.
ref: 1949, Roy Alfred (lyrics), Andy Gibson (music)
ref: 1995, John W. Roberts, From Hucklebuck to Hip Hop: Social Dance in the African-American Community, →ISBN:
glosses: A rhythmic dance from the time just prior to rock and roll.
examples: text: I am turtle soup, gator soup, tenderloin catfish, shrimp saute
Shrimp Samantha, fried shrimp, stuffed shrimp, peeled ice
shrimp, Crabmeat au gratin, berled crab, stuffed crab, Shrimp
Newberg, Shrimp etoufeé, Bananas Foster, Hubig’s Pies, Roman
ref: 1988, Arthur Pfister, "My Name is New Orleans", re-printed in Arthur Pfister, My Name is New Orleans: 40 Years of Poetry & Other Jazz, Margaret Media, Inc. (2009) →ISBN, page 5
roman: Candy, pralines, and hucklebucks. . .
text: So, we made soul food, hucklebucks,
corn pone, and bread pudding,
gumbo, and greyas.
ref: 2005, Mona Lisa Saloy, Red Beans and Ricely Yours: Poems, Truman State University Press, →ISBN, page 91:
text: We waited for the Good Humor ice cream truck to get ice cream on a stick, huckle bucks, popsicles, or vanilla or chocolate ice cream in a small cup.
ref: 2011, Beverly Jacques Anderson, Cherished Memories: Snapshots of Life and Lessons from a 1950s New Orleans Creole Village, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 47:
qualifier: New Orleans
glosses: A treat consisting of frozen Kool-Aid served in a dixie cup.
examples: text: […] I had a patrolman pull over a hot roller 'bout two hours ago. One a'them boys in the stolen car opened up on my man, who's in Atlanta General breathing through a tube and, according to the docs, ain't never gonna wake up. […] If they find those hucklebucks, I'm gonna have a hollow-point street dance on my hands, but in my spare time, what can I do to serve my Federal government?"
ref: 1996, Stephen J. Cannell, Final Victim, Avon Books, published 1997, →ISBN, page 107:
text: Who? I'm guessing a country singer of some reknown - I have heard the name before but I have no idea what he said or sang. Anyway, I will admit that when a celebrity with conservative beliefs states his opinion the response is usually more restained,^([sic]) but there's still a response. And a lot of it is of the "he should stick to singing to hucklebucks / he should stick to blowing stuff up in movies" type responses.
ref: 2003 March 23, M1ahearn [username], “Re: NBC>>Ben Affleck is a MORON”, in rec.music.artists.springsteen (Usenet):
text: who cares if you did? does it say you're not sophisticated if you voted for a hucklebuck? maybe you have money in petroleum or halliburton.
ref: 2006 April 5, Jeff White, “Re: Darwin Answered His Own Evolution Questions”, in alt.religion.christian (Usenet):
glosses: A hillbilly or otherwise culturally backwards person.