hucklebuck
/ˈhʌkl.bʌk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.23 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A rhythmic dance from the time just prior to rock and roll.
verb
To dance the hucklebuck.
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?""
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈhʌkl.bʌk/