Shuck

/ʃʌk/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
2. (slang, African-American Vernacular) A fraud; a scam.
3. (slang) A phony.
4. (transitive) To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
5. (transitive) To remove (any outer covering).
6. (computing, slang, transitive) To remove (an external hard drive or solid-state drive) from its casing so that it can be used inside another device.
7. (transitive, intransitive, slang) To fool; to hoax.
8. (dialectal) To shake; shiver.

Example Sentences

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

Shall we shuck walnuts?

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

[...] 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."

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• shucks
• shock
• shucking
• shucked

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