hucklebucking

Verb

hucklebuck (third-person singular simple present hucklebucks, present participle hucklebucking, simple past and past participle hucklebucked)

1. To dance the hucklebuck.
   • "We jumped* and boped*
     and stamped around the floor,
     we hucklebucked until my back is sore
     but honey, wont you waltz with me once more*.1948, Paul Williams, "The Hucklebuck", quoted in Jean-Paul Levet, Talkin' That Talk, Soul Bag (1986), page 168
2. To move quickly, with quick movements and, often, going in circles.
   • Macon hucklebucked eleven flights rather than risk one elevator stare.2005, Adam Mansbach, Angry Black White Boy: The Miscegenation of Macon Detornay, Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 151

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