Meaning

A rhythmic dance from the time just prior to rock and roll..

Definitions by Sense

1. A rhythmic dance from the time just prior to rock and roll.
2. (New Orleans) A treat consisting of frozen Kool-Aid served in a dixie cup.
3. (slang, derogatory) A hillbilly or otherwise culturally backwards person.
4. To dance the hucklebuck.
5. To move quickly, with quick movements and, often, going in circles.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

[…] 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.

Word Forms

• hucklebucks
• hucklebucking
• hucklebucked

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