hucklebuck
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The dance is perhaps from huckle (“hip”) + buck.
Inflected forms:
form: hucklebucks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hucklebucks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hucklebucking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hucklebucked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hucklebucked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A rhythmic dance from the time just prior to rock and roll.
pos: noun
examples: 1948, Paul Williams, The hucklebuck, quoted in Talkin' that talk (1986), page 168
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.
gloss: A treat consisting of frozen Kool-Aid served in a dixie cup.
pos: noun
examples: 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
So, we made soul food, hucklebucks,
corn pone, and bread pudding,
gumbo, and greyas.
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.
gloss: A hillbilly or otherwise culturally backwards person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: […] 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?"
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.
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.
gloss: To dance the hucklebuck.
pos: verb
examples: "We jumped* and boped*
and stamped around the floor,
we hucklebucked until my back is sore
but honey, wont you waltz with me once more*.
The guys stood around the jukebox applejacking and hucklebucking to the music...
[…] Thanks to jazz my toes don't knock no more. I cold-turkeyed to Bird doin 'Now's the Time,' and hucklebucked out a the spell of heroin. […]
gloss: To move quickly, with quick movements and, often, going in circles.
pos: verb
examples: Macon hucklebucked eleven flights rather than risk one elevator stare.
It is only a game. I join the rhythmic clapping that always follows the fight song while the last of the players extracts himself from the stands and hucklebucks his way to join the milling, weight-shifting, pocketjammed team, […]
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