shuck🔊

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

(slang, African-American Vernacular) A fraud; a scam.

(slang) A phony.

To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).

To remove (any outer covering).

(computing, slang) To remove (an external hard drive or solid-state drive) from its casing so that it can be used inside another device.

(slang) To fool; to hoax.

(dialectal) To shake; shiver.

(dialectal) To slither or slip, move about, wriggle.

(dialectal) To do hurriedly or in a restless way.

(dialectal) To avoid; baffle, outwit, shirk.

(dialectal, of a horse) To walk at a slow trot.

(European folklore) A supernatural and generally malevolent black dog in English folklore. +