shuck
剥皮,剥壳,剥落,剥去
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Definitions
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- : a husk or pod, as the outer covering of corn, hickory nuts, chestnuts, etc.
- : Usually shucks. Informal. something useless or worthless: They don't care shucks about the project.
- : the shell of an oyster or clam.
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- : to remove the shucks from: to shuck corn.
- : to remove or discard as or like shucks; peel off: to shuck one's clothes.
- : Slang. to get rid of: a bad habit I couldn't shuck off for years.
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Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Why is it so hard to shuck this notion that governments should cut spending and/or raise taxes in times of economic slack?
Shuck went on to become a drill sergeant and Gabe was assigned to a new handler.
Ultimately, Gabe was allowed to retire and was adopted by Shuck.
My heart jump, my knees shuck, en my han' trimble; but I know I got ter git away fum dar.
He just stayed, and shuck hands with everybody, pleasant as a basket of chips; and he went home with David Gillespie.
He was dredful glad to see me, an shuck my hand as ef he thought there warn't no feelin in it.
For the shuck, as I see it, is exclusiveness, which is not valuable except to persons justly doubtful of their own merits.
Her face was so thin her eyes stood out like a bird's, and her cheek was the color of an old shuck of corn.